postgres Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Launched on 18 August 2021, it lets riders hail driverless taxis without a safety driver inside designated operating areas and pay as with a normal ride-hailing trip; by July 2026 it operated in 27 cities worldwide and had provided more than 22 million rides. /en/organizations/luobo-kuaipao/relation.html organization_luobo_kuaipao organization luobo-kuaipao Luobo Kuaipao Baidu Apollo Go Apollo Go Robotaxi

Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Launched on 18 August 2021, it lets riders hail driverless taxis without a safety driver inside designated operating areas and pay as with a normal ride-hailing trip; by July 2026 it operated in 27 cities worldwide and had provided more than 22 million rides.

published category-road-transport tag-autonomous-driving tag-robotaxi s1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Go History、Services 章节；English Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-31 s2 https://www.robotgo.com/ 首页：安全行驶里程、叫车流程 s3 央视网 2026-07-29 https://auto.cctv.com/2026/07/29/ARTI8wuRAZ40qSAhMImrpXbl260729.shtml s4 https://www.apollo.auto/ 萝卜快跑产品页与新闻动态 s5 BBC News 2026-04-01 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge91r9j80o s6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu 信息框：总部北京市；English Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-31 2026-11-01T00:14:32+08:00 2026-11-01T00:37:37+08:00 user:admin 11 ## Overview Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Riders hail a vehicle through the Apollo Go app, a WeChat mini programme or Baidu Maps, and pay for the trip as with a conventional ride-hailing service inside designated operating areas; vehicles in scaled operation carry no safety driver. ## History - 10 September 2020: Baidu opened the Apollo Go robotaxi service in Beijing. - 18 August 2021: Baidu unveiled the autonomous mobility platform "Apollo Go" at Baidu World. - 20 July 2022: the first batch of 25 driverless BAIC Arcfox vehicles was approved to provide regular paid trips in Beijing. - 21 July 2022: Baidu released the sixth-generation mass-produced robotaxi Apollo RT6 at Baidu World, with a stated vehicle cost of about RMB 250,000 and planned deployment from 2023. - 8 August 2022: Chongqing and Wuhan issued China's first fully driverless commercial pilot permits to Baidu, making Apollo Go the only approved operator to run paid trips with no safety driver in the vehicle. - 17 June 2023: Apollo Go began fully driverless commercial operation in Shenzhen. - 29 November 2024: the Hong Kong Transport Department said Apollo Go had obtained the first batch of autonomous vehicle pilot licences. - 2025: Baidu signed partnerships with Uber and Lyft to bring the service onto their global networks; under the Lyft arrangement the vehicles are built by Jiangling Motors and were expected to operate in Germany and the United Kingdom from 2026. - 23 July 2026: Apollo Go obtained Hong Kong's first fully driverless test licence in a right-hand-drive (left-hand traffic) market and began driverless public road tests on the airport island; on 28 July it started public road tests in London together with Uber and FreeNow, part of Lyft. ## Vehicles and technology Apollo Go's main vehicle is Baidu Apollo's sixth-generation robotaxi, the Apollo RT6. It is built on Baidu's in-house Apollo Galaxy platform with a purpose-built design for driverless operation and redundancy in architecture, computing unit and braking system; the vehicle cost announced at its 2022 launch was about RMB 250,000. ## Scale and operations By July 2026 Apollo Go operated in 27 cities worldwide, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and had provided more than 22 million rides. On the evening of 31 March 2026 several Apollo Go vehicles stopped on roads in Wuhan; local traffic police said the initial assessment pointed to a system fault, passengers got out safely and no one was injured. ## Related entries [[organization_baidu_apollo|Baidu Apollo]], [[organization_baidu|Baidu]], [[person_wang_yunpeng|Wang Yunpeng]], [[organization_pony_ai|Pony AI]], [[organization_weride|WeRide]], [[organization_uber|Uber]], [[organization_lyft|Lyft]], [[organization_jiangling_motors|Jiangling Motors]] /organizations/luobo-kuaipao.html en zh zh en robotaxi_operator 2021 8 18 day 2021年8月18日 active Beijing (headquarters of the operator Baidu) relation_luobo_part_of_apollo organization_luobo_kuaipao part_of organization_baidu_apollo 旗下自动驾驶出行服务平台 organization_luobo_kuaipao s1 Part of organization_baidu_apollo Baidu Apollo /en/organizations/baidu-apollo.html false relation_robotaxi_exemplified_by_1 concept_robotaxi exemplified_by organization_luobo_kuaipao concept_robotaxi s1 Exemplifies concepts concept_robotaxi Robotaxi /en/concepts/robotaxi.html true relation_luobo_hq_beijing organization_luobo_kuaipao headquartered_in place_beijing organization_luobo_kuaipao s6 Headquartered in place_beijing Beijing /en/places/beijing.html false concept_robotaxi Robotaxi /en/concepts/robotaxi.html concept organization_baidu Baidu /en/organizations/baidu.html organization organization_baidu_apollo Baidu Apollo /en/organizations/baidu-apollo.html organization organization_deeproute DeepRoute.ai /en/organizations/deeproute.html organization organization_didi_autonomous_driving DiDi Autonomous Driving /en/organizations/didi-autonomous-driving.html organization organization_jiangling_motors Jiangling Motors /en/organizations/jiangling-motors.html organization organization_lyft Lyft /en/organizations/lyft.html organization organization_mogox MOGOX /en/organizations/mogox.html organization organization_momenta Momenta /en/organizations/momenta.html organization organization_pony_ai Pony AI /en/organizations/pony-ai.html organization part_of Part of relation_luobo_part_of_apollo organization_luobo_kuaipao part_of organization_baidu_apollo 旗下自动驾驶出行服务平台 organization_luobo_kuaipao s1 Part of organization_baidu_apollo Baidu Apollo /en/organizations/baidu-apollo.html false exemplified_by Exemplifies concepts relation_robotaxi_exemplified_by_1 concept_robotaxi exemplified_by organization_luobo_kuaipao concept_robotaxi s1 Exemplifies concepts concept_robotaxi Robotaxi /en/concepts/robotaxi.html true headquartered_in Headquartered in relation_luobo_hq_beijing organization_luobo_kuaipao headquartered_in place_beijing organization_luobo_kuaipao s6 Headquartered in place_beijing Beijing /en/places/beijing.html false en zh en org_kind Organization kind Robotaxi operator founded Founded 2021年8月18日 org_status Status Active headquarters_note Headquarters Beijing (headquarters of the operator Baidu) 1 50 3 1 3 21 /en/organizations/luobo-kuaipao/relation/mentions.html