According to the opening day of Apollo Day 2024, Baidu Apollo plans to deploy thousands of unmanned vehicles in Wuhan this year. It is reported that the goal of "Carrot Run" is to achieve a balance of income and expenditure in Wuhan by the end of 2024, and fully enter a profitable period by 2025. As of April, Baidu Apollo's autonomous driving mileage has exceeded 100 million kilometers. Meanwhile, Baidu Apollo has purchased insurance worth 5 million yuan for each unmanned vehicle and its passengers.
On the Open Day, Baidu Apollo released the Apollo ADFM (Autonomous Driving Foundation Model), a large model that supports L4 level autonomous driving. At the same time, it launched the sixth generation unmanned car "Carrot Run" with Baidu's sixth generation intelligent system solution and a price of 200000 yuan. It is reported that the sixth generation unmanned vehicle of "Carrot Run" adopts automatic battery swapping service, which can achieve high-speed battery swapping in 3 minutes. At present, "Carrot Run" has completed over 6 million travel services nationwide.