Baidu’s (BIDU) Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly ride orders globally as of October 31, according to a spokesperson for the company’s driverless car unit, CNBC’s Evelyn Cheng reports. Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Waymo reported the same number of paid weekly robotaxi rides in the U.S. back in April, Cheng notes. The spokesperson for Apollo Go also said that its robotaxis have not been involved in a major accident involving human injury or death so far.
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