Most of the autonomous cars you read about these days come from Europe and the US, and at least one from Japan. China, of course, isn’t going to take that sitting down. A year ago, Baidu and BMW forged a partnership to bring China’s first self-driving to China’s highways by 2015. 2015 is all but over but at least Baidu has made some significant progress as far as tests go. The Chinese Internet giant has proudly announced how its modified BMW 3 was put to the test, driving through mixed roads and under very trying conditions. And it was able to arrive at its destination without incident, showing promise for what could be China’s first fully-capable autonomous car.
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