
Wuhan Robotaxi Malfunction Strands Passengers and Halts Traffic
Autonomous taxis from Baidu's Apollo Go experienced a widespread system failure in Wuhan, China, causing over 100 vehicles to stop abruptly in traffic, leading to collisions and paralyzing road movement, with police rescuing stranded passengers.
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Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city
Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.
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