Baidu sees potential in Tesla robotaxi in China. Robotaxi partnership?

there might be some potential collaboration opportunities, or as Yunpeng (Baidu Corporate Vice President and President of Intelligent Driving Group) mentioned, we might provide a product for users to choose from within this industry. So, this also requires further consideration,” said Baoqiang Xu, General Manager of Autonomous Driving Technology Department at Baidu.*

“There are a handful of states that already have adopted autonomous vehicle laws. These states are paving the way for operations, while the data for such operations guides a broader adoption of driverless vehicles. I think Ashok can talk a little bit about our safety methodology, but we expect that these states and the work ongoing, as well as the data that we’re providing, will pave a way for a broad-based regulatory approval in the U.S. at least and then in other countries as well,” said Lars Moravy, Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. 

When asked about the pathway to regulatory approval for unsupervised FSD in the United States, Elon Musk said, “Other autonomous driving companies are also working with regulators. The safety numbers are going to be hard to ignore. I don't think there will be significant regulatory barriers if we can prove the safety data is there.”