Baidu wants to launch a self-driving bus in China next year

Baidu, China's search giant, is planning to release a fully self-driving bus in China next year, said CEO Robin Li in an interview at Wall Street Journal's D.Live conference. The bus will run on a designated route and Baidu is working with a Chinese company to make it. According to Li, Baidu is very serious about investing in autonomous vehicles. The company announced last week that it plans to start mass-producing L3 autonomous vehicles (where human intervention is conditional) in 2019 and L4 versions (where it's fully autonomous) in 2021. To to this, the company has partnered with Chinese automaker BAIC Motor Corp.