BMW and Baidu end self-driving car partnership

Last June, BMW and Baidu announced they would work together on self-driving car technology. Reuters reports that the automaker and Chinese tech company are now ending the joint research project. Baidu had been using BMW 3 sedans to perform on-road tests in China and had plans to so the same in the US. The announcement leaves Baidu searching for a global partner to help meet its lofty goal of making self-driving cars a reality for consumers by 2018. The tech company explained to Reuters that it's using Ford vehicles for testing now.