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An Apollo Go RT6 on Heping Avenue in Wuhan in December 2025, three months before the outage
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Apollo Go Robotaxi Network

🇨🇳 Wuhan · 7 min read

Wuhan was Baidu's robotaxi showcase. On 31 March 2026 Apollo Go cars stalled across the city; service stopped for about four months. What is still unknown.

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What happened
For four years Wuhan was the city where China's robotaxis grew up. Baidu's Apollo Go started there in 2022, won one of the country's first permits to carry paying passengers with nobody in the driver's seat, and by its own account came to cover thousands of square kilometres of the city. Cheap rides made it popular and made the city's drivers angry.
What the evidence shows
On the night of 31 March 2026 that growth stopped in a single evening. Apollo Go cars came to a halt across the city, some of them in the middle of elevated ring roads, and passengers could not get through to anyone. The police called it a system failure. The service in Wuhan was suspended, the country stopped issuing new robotaxi permits, and the cars were gone from the city's streets for about four months.
What's still open
The cars are back, in fewer districts. What is still not established is why they stopped, how many there were, and whether the restarted service runs with anyone aboard. The figures on this page come mostly from Baidu, from police statements relayed by the press, and from passengers.
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Media
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byBaidu Apollo Go (萝卜快跑), under permits from Wuhan municipal transport authorities
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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A permit, and a claim

Baidu's roots in Wuhan go back further than the robotaxi. In 2019, Baidu was among the first companies to obtain a business license for operating autonomous vehicles in Wuhan, in the development zone known as China's Auto City. The robotaxi service itself came later: Apollo Go began operations in Wuhan in May 2022, according to the company.

The step that put Wuhan on the map came three months after that. In August 2022 Baidu secured permits to offer a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service in Chongqing and Wuhan. It started small. In Wuhan the service would run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. across a 13-square-kilometre area of the Economic and Technological Development Zone, with five Apollo fifth-generation robotaxis in each city. The roads there were new and wide, and part of the zone had roadside V2X equipment, which helps Baidu monitor vehicles remotely and pilot them if necessary.

Baidu presented the launch as a national first, and that is how it is usually retold. The wording deserves care. TechCrunch reported that it would be the first fully driverless ride-hailing service in China, Baidu claimed, and the permits were for two cities at once. Baidu's own release that December said Wuhan became the first city in China to host commercial operation of fully driverless autonomous driving, and in the same release that the services in Chongqing and Wuhan run with no driver or safety operator in the car. The honest version is that Wuhan and Chongqing shared the first, and that the first is Baidu's claim.

The release also shows how fast the zone grew. By late December 2022 Apollo Go covered 130 square kilometres of Wuhan, and driverless hours in Junshan New Town were extended to 7:00 to 23:00 to reach evening travellers.

How big, and by whose count

Size is where the numbers start to come apart. By 2024 Baidu said its robotaxis covered more than 3,000 square kilometres of Wuhan. That is a company figure, and no measurement from outside Baidu was found.

The fleet was counted by someone else. In July 2024, as complaints spread online, Wuhan's transportation bureau said Apollo Go operated 400 robotaxis in the city, not the 1,000 many had claimed. The bureau also said the local taxi industry was relatively stable. Its count is the only official fleet figure for Wuhan that this page could find.

The complaints were about money as much as safety. A 10-kilometre ride in a typical ride-hailing car cost 18 to 30 yuan, an Apollo Go ride as little as 4 to 16 yuan. Local officials put numbers on the competition: ride-hailing drivers in Wuhan averaged 13.2 orders a day, against up to 20 for each robotaxi. Residents complained that the cars caused traffic jams by driving slowly and stopping unexpectedly. When an Apollo Go car hit a pedestrian in July 2024, a Baidu spokesperson called it a mild collision caused by the pedestrian jaywalking, and the debate went national.

The city answered with law rather than a ban. Wuhan's ordinance on intelligent connected vehicles took effect on 1 March 2025, which, according to one transport researcher, makes clear how responsibility is handled among the driver, the safety operator and the vehicle's owner and manager after an accident.

The night of 31 March

Wuhan police began receiving reports at 8:57 p.m. that Apollo Go vehicles were blocking roads. Social media was flooded with reports of the collective paralysis of Apollo Go vehicles across Wuhan, some of them standing on elevated ring roads where stopping is dangerous for everyone.

The passengers' accounts are the clearest record of what that meant. One man, travelling on the Third Ring Road, was trapped on an elevated highway for close to two hours. He said the in-car SOS button was completely useless and calls from the backseat screen were automatically disconnected. When he reached the official hotline he was told a specialist would be dispatched, and after nearly an hour no one had arrived. In the end the police, along with Apollo Go staff, reached him around 11:00 p.m. and walked him off the highway. Another passenger, stranded for an hour and a half, said she was still charged the full fare.

What caused it has been described three ways. Apollo Go customer service said the driving system abnormality was caused by network issues. Wuhan traffic police said a preliminary investigation showed a system failure. And industry insiders suggested the cars had hit a safety self-check mechanism, the same kind of stop seen when Waymo's driverless cars stalled in San Francisco after a power outage in December 2025. These are not the same explanation, and none of them is an investigation report. As of July 2026 neither Baidu nor the government had disclosed what caused the outage.

Even the scale is uncertain. One report has more than 100 Apollo Go robotaxis stalling at once across Wuhan; another, two months later, says nearly 100 vehicles suddenly ceased operations. Baidu has not given a figure. The atlas uses neither as a count.

What stopped, and for how long

The robotaxis left Wuhan's streets the next day. On 1 April Apollo Go's customer service confirmed that commercial service across Wuhan was suspended. In June residents found rows of the cars parked under sunshades, and the app still listed Wuhan as open but showed no free cars.

The national response came in stages. Three ministries, for industry, public security and transport, held a joint meeting in mid-April to order safety rectifications. Then, on 29 April, Bloomberg reported that China had stopped issuing new robotaxi permits, keeping companies from adding cars, starting test projects or entering new cities. The pause was not limited to Baidu: many newly added vehicles across the industry were held back from passenger service.

Permits began to resume after an industry-wide safety review was completed in late June. In Wuhan, residents posted footage of Apollo Go cars back on the roads from early July, some of them still carrying safety drivers. In early August the service could again be hailed in the development zone, Caidian and Hanyang, three districts out of a city that Baidu had once said it covered across thousands of square kilometres.

The company's own figures show what the pause cost. Apollo Go delivered 3.2 million fully driverless rides in the first quarter of 2026, across all its cities. In the second quarter it delivered around 1 million, and Baidu said volume was temporarily affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities due to regulatory considerations. The written results for the second quarter, unlike those for the first, gave no ride count.

The rule that came out of it

The outage did more than pause a business. It exposed a design assumption: that a car without a driver can always fall back on someone far away. In Wuhan that fallback was a remote service and a call centre, and the passengers who needed them could reach neither.

The draft rules written in the months that followed address exactly that. Drafting of the mandatory national standard on safety requirements for automated driving systems was completed on 16 June 2026. As reported, it allows remote assistance but says the automated driving system should not rely on remote assistance to complete the dynamic driving task, and that when communications fail the vehicle must rely on its own local system, for example by stopping safely in a minimal-risk state.

That is the transferable point, and it reaches beyond China. A permit tells a city who may drive; it does not say what happens to the passengers when every car stops at once. Wuhan's fleet did stop safely in the narrow sense that no injuries were reported. It did not stop in places where people could get out.

📊 Impact

Apollo Go reported 3.2 million fully driverless rides worldwide in the first quarter of 2026 and around 1 million in the second, when Baidu said ride volume was temporarily affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities due to regulatory considerations. In Wuhan the robotaxis were off the streets for about four months. The nationwide freeze on new robotaxi permits, imposed on 29 April 2026, ended in July; as of July 2026 neither Baidu nor the government had disclosed what caused the March outage.

🎓 Lesson

A fleet with nobody at the wheel needs a plan for the moment it stops. In Wuhan the cars halted where they were, in-car SOS calls failed, and getting passengers off elevated roads depended on police and staff reaching each car. China's draft national safety standard, completed in June 2026, takes the point: an automated driving system should not rely on remote assistance to perform the driving task.

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Sources

↗ TechCrunch — Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing (2022-08-07)Published 7 August 2022Reports Baidu's permits for fully driverless commercial service in Wuhan and Chongqing; Wuhan to start with five cars over 13 km² of the development zone, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attributes the 'first in China' claim to Baidu.
↗ Baidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29)Published 29 December 2022Baidu's own release: Apollo Go began operating in Wuhan in May 2022, now covers 130 km² there, and runs driverless in Chongqing and Wuhan with no driver or safety operator aboard. Operator claims.
↗ Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)Published 12 July 2024July 2024 report on the backlash in Wuhan: the transportation bureau's count of 400 robotaxis, Baidu's claim of more than 3,000 km², fares of 4 to 16 yuan against 18 to 30 yuan for a ride-hailing car over 10 km, and a collision with a pedestrian.
↗ CnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29)Published 29 April 2026Citing Bloomberg, reports that China stopped issuing new robotaxi permits after Apollo Go cars stalled in Wuhan on 31 March, and that Baidu's Wuhan operations were suspended during the investigation. Gives no count of stalled cars.
↗ CnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23)Published 23 July 2026Citing Bloomberg, reports permits resuming after an industry-wide safety review completed in late June, hundreds of Wuhan robotaxis pulled during the review, and cars seen back on the streets from early July, some with safety drivers.
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↗ Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)Published 23 July 2026Citing Bloomberg: more than 100 Apollo Go robotaxis stalled across Wuhan on 31 March; passengers stranded up to two hours as in-car SOS failed; freeze on new permits from 29 April until July; no cause disclosed.
↗ CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)Published 1 April 2026Reports the Wuhan traffic police statement that a preliminary investigation found a system failure, emergency calls from about 9 p.m., no injuries, and customer service blaming network issues.
↗ CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)Published 1 April 2026Passengers' accounts, via DuTe News: one stranded on the elevated Third Ring Road for close to two hours, an SOS button that did not work, a hotline that sent no one, a full fare charged.
↗ Caixin Global — Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis suffer mass malfunction on Wuhan roads (2026-04-02)Published 2 April 2026Wuhan police received the first reports at 8:57 p.m.; a police briefing said no one was injured and blamed a suspected system failure. Paywalled after the opening paragraphs.
↗ CarNewsChina — Robotaxi industry faces regulatory 'cooling-off' after the Apollo Go outage (2026-05-29)Published 29 May 2026Puts the stalled fleet at nearly 100 vehicles; reports a joint meeting of three ministries in mid-April ordering safety rectifications and new vehicles held back from passenger service.
↗ Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)Published 3 August 2026Reports Apollo Go back in service in Wuhan's development zone, Caidian and Hanyang after about four months, and that customer service confirmed a citywide suspension on 1 April.
↗ Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)Published 26 June 2026Reports Apollo Go cars parked under covers in Wuhan two months after the outage, and summarises the draft national standard completed on 16 June: automated driving systems should not rely on remote assistance.
↗ Baidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18)Published 18 May 2026Baidu's first-quarter 2026 results: 3.2 million fully driverless rides, weekly peak over 350,000 in March. Operator figures.
↗ Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-08-18)Published 18 August 2026Baidu's second-quarter 2026 results: the robotaxi section lists expansion in London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Switzerland and 28 cities, but gives no ride count.
↗ Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18)Published 18 August 2026Transcript of Baidu's earnings call: around 1 million fully driverless rides in the second quarter, volume affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities for regulatory reasons, operations resuming from August.
↗ National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) — Beijing and Wuhan pass autonomous-driving rules (2025-01-05)Published 5 January 2025Reports that Wuhan's ordinance on intelligent connected vehicles was published and takes effect on 1 March 2025, and how a researcher reads its liability rules.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2022. 16 of 16 sources carry a publication date, from 7 August 2022 to 18 August 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. TechCrunch · pressTechCrunch — Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing (2022-08-07)
  2. Baidu (via PR Newswire) · operatorBaidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29)
  3. Sixth Tone · pressSixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
  4. National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) · pressNational Business Daily (每日经济新闻) — Beijing and Wuhan pass autonomous-driving rules (2025-01-05)
  5. CnEVPost · pressCnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
  6. CarNewsChina · pressCarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
  7. Caixin Global · pressCaixin Global — Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis suffer mass malfunction on Wuhan roads (2026-04-02)
  8. CnEVPost · pressCnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29)
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  1. Baidu · operatorBaidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18)
  2. CarNewsChina · pressCarNewsChina — Robotaxi industry faces regulatory 'cooling-off' after the Apollo Go outage (2026-05-29)
  3. Shixiang (市象) · pressShixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
  4. CnEVPost · pressCnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23)
  5. Automotive World · pressAutomotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
  6. Phoenix New Media (ifeng.com) · pressPhoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
  7. Baidu · operatorBaidu — Second Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-08-18)
  8. The Motley Fool · pressBaidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18)

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What this page rests on, and what it cannot answer

Almost every figure about Apollo Go in Wuhan comes from Baidu: the start date, the service area, the ride counts and the claim to have been first. The one official fleet count, 400 cars in July 2024, came from the city's transportation bureau through the press and has not been updated in any source found. The account of 31 March rests on police statements as relayed by the press, and on what passengers told reporters.

Three questions stay open. The cause of the outage has not been published by Baidu or by any authority. The number of cars that stopped is reported as more than 100 in one account and nearly 100 in another. And no source found says whether the service that returned in August 2026 runs with nobody aboard, as it did before the outage, or with safety drivers, as some of the cars seen in July did.

Evidence file · public beta 74 addressable claims, 16 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. 62 of them are marked in the text above; the other 12 belong to a passage this page does not print, so they can be read here but not clicked in the article. The file is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-fae3b06cf5505217 quantitative
Baidu's Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) began operating in Wuhan in May 2022
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What the mapping says
Baidu's December 2022 release dates the start of Apollo Go operations in Wuhan to May 2022.
Caveat
The operator's own announcement; it does not say whether a safety driver was aboard at the start.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Baidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29)
Claim 2 clm-9f484d09afc1bfbc quantitative
in August 2022 won permits for fully driverless commercial rides there and in Chongqing
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What the mapping says
TechCrunch reported on 7 August 2022 that Baidu had secured permits for a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service in both cities.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TechCrunch — Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing (2022-08-07)
Claim 3 clm-a72e88a3273991f5 descriptive
which Baidu called the first such service in China
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What the mapping says
TechCrunch attributes the 'first in China' claim to Baidu, and it covers the Wuhan and Chongqing launches together.
Caveat
The 'first' is Baidu's own claim, and it was made for two cities at once, not for Wuhan alone.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TechCrunch — Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing (2022-08-07)
Claim 4 clm-fb1cef6d5b09de54 quantitative
By the company's own account the service later covered more than 3,000 square kilometres of the city
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone reports the coverage figure and attributes it to Baidu.
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Operator figure; no independent measurement of the service area was found.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 5 clm-99eed2f3f92b8e9a quantitative
in July 2024 Wuhan's transportation bureau put the fleet at 400 robotaxis, not the 1,000 claimed online
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone, 12 July 2024, reports that the city's transportation bureau told domestic media Apollo Go operated 400 robotaxis in Wuhan, not 1,000.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 6 clm-15c58c68a8805348 quantitative
as fares of 4 to 16 yuan for a 10-kilometre ride fed a backlash from drivers
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone compares the Apollo Go fare for a 10-kilometre ride with 18 to 30 yuan in a typical ride-hailing car and describes drivers losing business to the robotaxis.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 7 clm-b7fe5ca233f2400a quantitative
On the night of 31 March 2026 Apollo Go cars stalled on roads across the city
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost dates the stalling to the night of 31 March; Automotive World describes it as simultaneous across Wuhan.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
  2. Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
Claim 8 clm-17e8f7108700024b descriptive
leaving some passengers on elevated highways for close to two hours
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina relays a passenger's account, from DuTe News, of being stuck on the elevated Third Ring Road for close to two hours.
Caveat
Based on passengers' accounts reported in the press.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 9 clm-a7a04a98ac1a3f29 descriptive
a preliminary police investigation pointed to a system failure
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost reports the Wuhan traffic police statement; Caixin reports the police briefing attributing the disruption to a suspected system failure.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
  2. Caixin Global — Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis suffer mass malfunction on Wuhan roads (2026-04-02)
Claim 10 clm-5ff4ca38a11ac26e quantitative
Commercial service across Wuhan was suspended from 1 April
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What the mapping says
ifeng reports that Apollo Go's customer service confirmed on 1 April that commercial order-taking was suspended across Wuhan; CnEVPost, citing Bloomberg, reports the Wuhan operations as suspended while authorities investigated.
Caveat
Confirmed through the company's customer service, not in a public statement. A CnEVPost report of 1 April, citing The Paper, said operations had resumed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
  2. CnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29)
Claim 11 clm-dc5b954367cc4a86 descriptive
China stopped issuing new robotaxi permits nationwide
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost, citing Bloomberg, reports the nationwide suspension of new permits after the Wuhan incident.
Caveat
Reported through people familiar with the matter, not announced by a regulator.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. CnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29)
Claim 12 clm-b18a8dd44f930577 quantitative
in August 2026 the service was reported back in three districts
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What the mapping says
ifeng reports on 3 August 2026 that Apollo Go could again be hailed in the Economic and Technological Development Zone, Caidian and Hanyang.
Caveat
A media test, not an announcement by Baidu or the city.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
Claim 13 clm-228d40ee8ac1364c quantitative
Apollo Go reported 3.2 million fully driverless rides worldwide in the first quarter of 2026
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What the mapping says
Baidu's first-quarter 2026 results filed with the SEC give the ride count.
Caveat
The operator's own count, for all cities combined.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Baidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18)
Claim 14 clm-1ee5a8a271a06ff2 quantitative
around 1 million in the second
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What the mapping says
Baidu gave the second-quarter figure on its earnings call; the written results release for the quarter states no ride count.
Caveat
The operator's own count, for all cities combined.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18)
Claim 15 clm-6c9f80d983fa09a2 descriptive
Baidu said ride volume was temporarily affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities due to regulatory considerations
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What the mapping says
Baidu's management explained the second-quarter fall in these words on the earnings call.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18)
Claim 16 clm-2f61c5ea88bd2fbc descriptive
In Wuhan the robotaxis were off the streets for about four months
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What the mapping says
ifeng describes the August return as coming after about four months of rectification; Shixiang reported in June that the cars had almost vanished from Wuhan's roads.
Caveat
CnEVPost and Automotive World report Apollo Go cars back on Wuhan streets from early July, some with safety drivers.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
  2. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
Claim 17 clm-0805e168476b09ec quantitative
The nationwide freeze on new robotaxi permits, imposed on 29 April 2026, ended in July
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What the mapping says
Automotive World dates the freeze to 29 April and its end to July; CnEVPost reports permits resuming after an industry-wide review completed in late June.
Caveat
Both reports rely on Bloomberg's people familiar with the matter.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
  2. CnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23)
Claim 18 clm-c821e06a398570d1 quantitative
as of July 2026 neither Baidu nor the government had disclosed what caused the March outage
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What the mapping says
Automotive World's July 2026 report says no cause had been disclosed.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
Claim 19 clm-894d3b74b5bae7aa descriptive
in-car SOS calls failed
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina relays a passenger's account of a useless SOS button and disconnected calls; Automotive World reports in-car SOS systems failing.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
  2. Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
Claim 20 clm-125b8056e95f105a descriptive
getting passengers off elevated roads depended on police and staff reaching each car
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina's passenger accounts describe police and Apollo Go staff reaching the stranded passengers on the elevated highway.
Caveat
Based on passengers' accounts reported in the press.

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  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 21 clm-b648df54d362e7db quantitative
China's draft national safety standard, completed in June 2026
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What the mapping says
Shixiang reports that drafting of the mandatory national standard on automated driving system safety requirements was completed on 16 June.
Caveat
A draft submitted for approval, not yet a published standard.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
Claim 22 clm-a46143dee07b86ac descriptive
an automated driving system should not rely on remote assistance to perform the driving task
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lesson · verbatim
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What the mapping says
Shixiang summarises the draft standard: remote assistance is allowed, but the system should not depend on it to complete the dynamic driving task.
Caveat
The standard's wording is reported by the press, not quoted from the official text.

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  1. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
Claim 23 clm-bb7f07eba02cfd4b quantitative
In 2019, Baidu was among the first companies to obtain a business license for operating autonomous vehicles in Wuhan
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone dates Baidu's first Wuhan business licence for autonomous vehicles to 2019.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 31 clm-2c694bce37299862 descriptive
Wuhan became the first city in China to host commercial operation of fully driverless autonomous driving
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What the mapping says
Baidu's own release of 29 December 2022.
Caveat
The operator's own claim; its release names Chongqing alongside Wuhan.

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  1. Baidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29)
Claim 32 clm-4b0649038bfb57e4 descriptive
the services in Chongqing and Wuhan run with no driver or safety operator in the car
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What the mapping says
The same Baidu release describes both services as running with nobody aboard.
Caveat
The operator's own description, as of December 2022.

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  1. Baidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29)
Claim 35 clm-c478eacd49293b44 quantitative
Baidu said its robotaxis covered more than 3,000 square kilometres of Wuhan
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone reports the area and attributes it to Baidu.
Caveat
Operator figure; no outside measurement was found.

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 36 clm-ac7a776eafd16f46 quantitative
Wuhan's transportation bureau said Apollo Go operated 400 robotaxis in the city, not the 1,000 many had claimed
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone reports what the city's transportation bureau told domestic media.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 37 clm-5d297663ad750d5d descriptive
The bureau also said the local taxi industry was relatively stable
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone reports the transportation bureau's statement.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 38 clm-292a82357f61dfcd quantitative
A 10-kilometre ride in a typical ride-hailing car cost 18 to 30 yuan, an Apollo Go ride as little as 4 to 16 yuan
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Sixth Tone compares 18 to 30 yuan for a ride-hailing car with 4 to 16 yuan for Apollo Go over 10 kilometres.
Caveat
Reported prices, not a fare table.

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 39 clm-ca9c04824a96ac63 quantitative
ride-hailing drivers in Wuhan averaged 13.2 orders a day, against up to 20 for each robotaxi
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone, citing local authorities as widely reported by domestic media.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 40 clm-655ba952a983308f descriptive
Residents complained that the cars caused traffic jams by driving slowly and stopping unexpectedly
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Sixth Tone, July 2024.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 41 clm-dc38c7e09926688e descriptive
a Baidu spokesperson called it a mild collision caused by the pedestrian jaywalking
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What the mapping says
Sixth Tone relays Baidu's account of the July 2024 collision.
Caveat
The company's characterisation of the collision.

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  1. Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12)
Claim 42 clm-6744493b2c742a93 quantitative
Wuhan's ordinance on intelligent connected vehicles took effect on 1 March 2025
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What the mapping says
National Business Daily reports the ordinance's publication and its effective date, and its treatment of driver, safety operator, owner and manager in accidents.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) — Beijing and Wuhan pass autonomous-driving rules (2025-01-05)
Claim 43 clm-aa72b21d8cade72f descriptive
makes clear how responsibility is handled among the driver, the safety operator and the vehicle's owner and manager after an accident
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What the mapping says
National Business Daily quotes Ji Xuehong of North China University of Technology on the Wuhan ordinance.
Caveat
A researcher's reading of the ordinance, not its text.

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  1. National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) — Beijing and Wuhan pass autonomous-driving rules (2025-01-05)
Claim 44 clm-331a3cbc5929df2b quantitative
Wuhan police began receiving reports at 8:57 p.m. that Apollo Go vehicles were blocking roads
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What the mapping says
Caixin Global, 2 April 2026, reporting the police account.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Caixin Global — Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis suffer mass malfunction on Wuhan roads (2026-04-02)
Claim 45 clm-dea317d580fbbe82 descriptive
Social media was flooded with reports of the collective paralysis of Apollo Go vehicles across Wuhan
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina, 1 April 2026.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 47 clm-bfe17bcfff1fdb49 descriptive
the in-car SOS button was completely useless and calls from the backseat screen were automatically disconnected
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body · verbatim
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina relays the passenger's account.
Caveat
A passenger's account.

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  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 48 clm-00bc055a6d60a266 descriptive
When he reached the official hotline he was told a specialist would be dispatched, and after nearly an hour no one had arrived
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body · verbatim
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What the mapping says
CarNewsChina relays the passenger's account.
Caveat
A passenger's account.

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  1. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 51 clm-b80c66e95450eb39 descriptive
Apollo Go customer service said the driving system abnormality was caused by network issues
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost and CarNewsChina both report customer service blaming network issues.
Caveat
Said by customer service, not in an official company statement.

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  1. CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
  2. CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01)
Claim 52 clm-1f2f96bf881e6698 descriptive
Wuhan traffic police said a preliminary investigation showed a system failure
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body · verbatim
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost reports the traffic police statement of 1 April 2026.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
Claim 53 clm-d74f895c0843b286 descriptive
industry insiders suggested the cars had hit a safety self-check mechanism
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What the mapping says
CnEVPost relays The Paper's report of what industry insiders said; the same article recalls Waymo's San Francisco stall of December 2025.
Caveat
Speculation by unnamed insiders.

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  1. CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01)
Claim 58 clm-146c05fc559e570e quantitative
On 1 April Apollo Go's customer service confirmed that commercial service across Wuhan was suspended
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ifeng reports the citywide suspension as confirmed by customer service on 1 April.
Caveat
Confirmed through customer service, not a public statement.

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  1. Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
Claim 62 clm-29f005dbf8283278 descriptive
China had stopped issuing new robotaxi permits, keeping companies from adding cars, starting test projects or entering new cities
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CnEVPost, 29 April 2026, citing Bloomberg's report of that day.
Caveat
Reported through people familiar with the matter.

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  1. CnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29)
Claim 64 clm-b8b9289b69826f1c descriptive
Permits began to resume after an industry-wide safety review was completed in late June
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CnEVPost, 23 July 2026, citing Bloomberg.
Caveat
Reported through people familiar with the matter.

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  1. CnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23)
Claim 65 clm-ee5f352a15e2391d descriptive
residents posted footage of Apollo Go cars back on the roads from early July, some of them still carrying safety drivers
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CnEVPost and Automotive World both report residents' footage from early July.
Caveat
Based on residents' social-media posts.

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  1. CnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23)
  2. Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23)
Claim 66 clm-c432c540d2b567b4 descriptive
the service could again be hailed in the development zone, Caidian and Hanyang
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ifeng, 3 August 2026, relaying a media test by 读佳.
Caveat
A media test, not an announcement.

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  1. Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03)
Claim 67 clm-5c1ec876905f2ba2 quantitative
Apollo Go delivered 3.2 million fully driverless rides in the first quarter of 2026
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What the mapping says
Baidu's SEC filing of 18 May 2026.
Caveat
Operator figure, all cities combined.

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  1. Baidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18)
Claim 69 clm-6b2d6a50dbfa4a5c descriptive
volume was temporarily affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities due to regulatory considerations
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Baidu's earnings call.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

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  1. Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18)
Claim 70 clm-f4c49e61a9ef5d5e descriptive
The written results for the second quarter, unlike those for the first, gave no ride count
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What the mapping says
Baidu's first-quarter 2026 release states a ride count in its robotaxi section; the second-quarter release of 18 August 2026 lists expansion abroad and cumulative kilometres but no ride count.
Caveat
Based on reading both filings; a statement about what the release does not contain.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-08-18)
  2. Baidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18)
Claim 71 clm-1e4881d1b491a7f9 quantitative
Drafting of the mandatory national standard on safety requirements for automated driving systems was completed on 16 June 2026
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What the mapping says
Shixiang reports the completion of the draft standard submitted for approval.
Caveat
A draft, not yet a published standard.

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  1. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
Claim 72 clm-5c15b63bff767d56 descriptive
the automated driving system should not rely on remote assistance to complete the dynamic driving task
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What the mapping says
Shixiang summarises the draft's position on remote assistance.
Caveat
Reported by the press, not quoted from the official text.

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  1. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
Claim 73 clm-3fa574cc809fe83a descriptive
the vehicle must rely on its own local system, for example by stopping safely in a minimal-risk state
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Shixiang summarises the draft's requirement when communications fail.
Caveat
Reported by the press, not quoted from the official text.

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  1. Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26)
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Baidu Apollo Go (萝卜快跑), under permits from Wuhan municipal transport authorities
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private
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TechCrunch — Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing (2022-08-07) techcrunch.com · 8 linked claims

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src-46b38d4d1c4170b6
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Name not classified · techcrunch.com
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-08-07
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Reports Baidu's permits for fully driverless commercial service in Wuhan and Chongqing; Wuhan to start with five cars over 13 km² of the development zone, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attributes the 'first in China' claim to Baidu.

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Baidu press release — Wuhan service area tripled, Beijing driverless test licence (2022-12-29) prnewswire.com · 6 linked claims

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src-170eb530a208f48c
Publisher
Name not classified · prnewswire.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2022-12-29
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Baidu's own release: Apollo Go began operating in Wuhan in May 2022, now covers 130 km² there, and runs driverless in Chongqing and Wuhan with no driver or safety operator aboard. Operator claims.

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Sixth Tone — Baidu's mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate in China (2024-07-12) sixthtone.com · 11 linked claims

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src-a00453ae362a4e18
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Name not classified · sixthtone.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2024-07-12
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July 2024 report on the backlash in Wuhan: the transportation bureau's count of 400 robotaxis, Baidu's claim of more than 3,000 km², fares of 4 to 16 yuan against 18 to 30 yuan for a ride-hailing car over 10 km, and a collision with a pedestrian.

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CnEVPost — China suspends new robotaxi permits after Baidu outage (2026-04-29) cnevpost.com · 3 linked claims

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src-e69ab306214dad7d
Publisher
Name not classified · cnevpost.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-04-29
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Citing Bloomberg, reports that China stopped issuing new robotaxi permits after Apollo Go cars stalled in Wuhan on 31 March, and that Baidu's Wuhan operations were suspended during the investigation. Gives no count of stalled cars.

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CnEVPost — China resumes issuing robotaxi licenses (2026-07-23) cnevpost.com · 3 linked claims

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src-95bc4f7e82b0b0f6
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Name not classified · cnevpost.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-07-23
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Citing Bloomberg, reports permits resuming after an industry-wide safety review completed in late June, hundreds of Wuhan robotaxis pulled during the review, and cars seen back on the streets from early July, some with safety drivers.

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Automotive World — China resumes robotaxi permits after three-month freeze (2026-07-23) automotiveworld.com · 7 linked claims

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src-b4afee71e6b438a1
Publisher
Name not classified · automotiveworld.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-07-23
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Citing Bloomberg: more than 100 Apollo Go robotaxis stalled across Wuhan on 31 March; passengers stranded up to two hours as in-car SOS failed; freeze on new permits from 29 April until July; no cause disclosed.

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CnEVPost — Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis hit by rare mass paralysis in Chinese city (2026-04-01) cnevpost.com · 7 linked claims

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src-15c56fdd2af389c4
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Name not classified · cnevpost.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-04-01
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Reports the Wuhan traffic police statement that a preliminary investigation found a system failure, emergency calls from about 9 p.m., no injuries, and customer service blaming network issues.

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CarNewsChina — Apollo Go's robotaxi fleet suffers mass paralysis in Wuhan (2026-04-01) carnewschina.com · 10 linked claims

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src-7542110fe8b462f6
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Name not classified · carnewschina.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-04-01
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Passengers' accounts, via DuTe News: one stranded on the elevated Third Ring Road for close to two hours, an SOS button that did not work, a hotline that sent no one, a full fare charged.

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Caixin Global — Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis suffer mass malfunction on Wuhan roads (2026-04-02) caixinglobal.com · 3 linked claims

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Name not classified · caixinglobal.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-04-02
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Wuhan police received the first reports at 8:57 p.m.; a police briefing said no one was injured and blamed a suspected system failure. Paywalled after the opening paragraphs.

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CarNewsChina — Robotaxi industry faces regulatory 'cooling-off' after the Apollo Go outage (2026-05-29) carnewschina.com · 3 linked claims

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Name not classified · carnewschina.com
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2026-05-29
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Puts the stalled fleet at nearly 100 vehicles; reports a joint meeting of three ministries in mid-April ordering safety rectifications and new vehicles held back from passenger service.

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Phoenix New Media (ifeng) — Apollo Go reported back in operation in Wuhan (2026-08-03) tech.ifeng.com · 5 linked claims

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Name not classified · tech.ifeng.com
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2026-08-03
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Reports Apollo Go back in service in Wuhan's development zone, Caidian and Hanyang after about four months, and that customer service confirmed a citywide suspension on 1 April.

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Shixiang (市象) via Sina Finance — Wuhan residents call for Apollo Go after its 60 days off the road (2026-06-26) finance.sina.com.cn · 8 linked claims

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src-dc259900a8a36cc0
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Name not classified · finance.sina.com.cn
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web-page · language not classified
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2026-06-26
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Reports Apollo Go cars parked under covers in Wuhan two months after the outage, and summarises the draft national standard completed on 16 June: automated driving systems should not rely on remote assistance.

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Baidu — First Quarter 2026 Results (SEC Form 6-K, 2026-05-18) sec.gov · 3 linked claims

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Baidu's first-quarter 2026 results: 3.2 million fully driverless rides, weekly peak over 350,000 in March. Operator figures.

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Baidu's second-quarter 2026 results: the robotaxi section lists expansion in London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Switzerland and 28 cities, but gives no ride count.

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Baidu — Second Quarter 2026 earnings call transcript (The Motley Fool, 2026-08-18) fool.com · 4 linked claims

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Transcript of Baidu's earnings call: around 1 million fully driverless rides in the second quarter, volume affected by operational adjustments in certain domestic cities for regulatory reasons, operations resuming from August.

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National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) — Beijing and Wuhan pass autonomous-driving rules (2025-01-05) mrjjxw.com · 2 linked claims

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Reports that Wuhan's ordinance on intelligent connected vehicles was published and takes effect on 1 March 2025, and how a researcher reads its liability rules.

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🇨🇳 Apollo Go: Fully Driverless Robotaxis in Yongchuan · Chongqing Same Apollo Go operator: Wuhan's fleet froze citywide in a cloud outage; Chongqing's drove into an open trench — different failure modes. 🇨🇳 National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Wuhan) Demonstration Zone · Wuhan The roadside sensing network this fleet rides on: permits and headlines go to Apollo Go, but Wuhan built the V2X infrastructure separately. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen's Autonomous Vehicle Law & Citywide Driverless Robotaxi Permit · Shenzhen Shenzhen's 2022 law assigns AV owners legal liability — the question raised when Wuhan's fleet froze for hours in 2026.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Apollo Go Robotaxi Network” — Wuhan, China. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/wuhan-apollo-go-robotaxi/ (last verified 2026-10-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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