Baidu wins China's first commercial license for self-driving buses

City of Wuhan also picks two other operators for network using Huawei 5G

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A self-driving bus with Baidu's Apollo autonomous driving open platform is displayed at the 2018 Baidu World conference. © Reuters

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer

CHONGQING -- Chinese search engine giant Baidu is among three companies to win a license from the city of Wuhan to operate a commercial transportation service using self-driving vehicles, in a first for China.

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