Search
HW News ARCHIVE

Samsung and Baidu Want to Make a Autonomous Car

Two Asia-based technology giant Samsung and Baidu officially announced that they will enter the driverless, autonomous cars industry. These two companies also will make improvements in this area by setting up separate individual departments themselves.

Rachel Kowalski
Rachel KowalskiCybersecurity Analyst
1 min read
Samsung and Baidu Want to Make a Autonomous Car

Two Asia-based technology giant Samsung and Baidu officially announced that they will enter the driverless, autonomous cars industry.These two companies also will make improvements in this area by setting up separate individual departments themselves.

Samsung’s driverless car plans different from Baidu and Apple.Samsung will produce the both hardware and software of these autonomous vehicles such as (sensors, cameras, etc. ) in this department. Hyundai also announced that they had discussed to produce components of autonomous cars in the past week. Thus, we can say that there will be a competition between Samsung and Hyundai.Samsung did not announce such a plan that if the company entirely will produce a driverless car.On the other hand, Baidu announced that the business fully developed a driverless car.In fact, Baidu shared that tests have been done, and the vehicle can speed up to 100 kph.The plan of Baidu is these driverless vehicles could be used for public transport in the cities.As a note, Professeur Andrew Ng who has a significant role in Google’s ”deep learning”, is working for Baidu’s autonomous car project now.Baidu uses a modified BMW 3-Series car for this project.And the car has laser radars, sensors and cameras.All These components work with mapping and ”deep learning” software developed by Baidu.

–

Baidu announced that the first driverless cars will not be available to private consumers, it planned to use as a public service vehicle.Finally, Baidu continues negotiations with the government for this kind of individual projects.

image credit: benzinga

–

Related Coverage

Google · Preferred Sources

Don't miss new tech stories on Google

Add TrendinTech once in the Google app and our stories appear in your news suggestions.

Add Now
Rachel Kowalski

Rachel Kowalski

Cybersecurity Analyst

Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.

All stories by Rachel Kowalski (214)