China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s
Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust

If autonomous cars are supposed to make life easy, then Apollo Go, the robotaxi unit of Baidu, a Chinese tech giant, still has work to do. When your correspondent tested its service in the city of Wuhan he had to find his way to a designated pick-up location and end his journey at an approved drop-off spot—more like taking a bus than a cab.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Bump start”
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