| | | Baidu Races Ahead of Tesla With Launch of Robotaxi With Detachable Steering Wheel
Chinese search giant says it plans to start using the autonomous car by next year; Tesla plans to mass produce a similar vehicle in 2024
 Baidu said its new model, Apollo RT6, will use its level-four autonomous driving system, which doesn’t require a driver under most conditions.PHOTO: NG HAN GUAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Raffaele Huang
July 21, 2022 5:40 am ET
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SINGAPORE—China’s Baidu unveiled a new autonomous car with a detachable steering wheel that it wants to use for its robotaxi service in 2023—up to a year before Tesla Inc. plans to start mass producing a similar vehicle.
Baidu, China’s long-dominant search-engine giant, priced the new model at about $37,000, nearly half of the $71,000 for the previous version of the car that was released in June 2021 with an ordinary steering wheel, the company said in a statement Thursday.
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