NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor will sign on to the Apollo self-driving platform led by Chinese internet search provider Baidu, as Beijing bolsters efforts to commercialize the technology amid a growing rivalry with the U.S.,Nikkei has learned.
Launched in 2017, Apollo is an open-source platform powered by machine learning that partner companies can use to develop their own self-driving technologies. By using expertise gleaned from the project, Toyota hopes to advance its own development of autonomous vehicles in China.
