Photo taken on July 4, 2018 shows the assembling line of Apolong at its manufacturing facility in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province. Chinese tech giant Baidu announced that its newly developed self-driving bus would begin mass production as the 100th bus came off the production line Wednesday in southeast China's Fujian Province. The self-driving bus, named Apolong, was co-developed by Baidu and commercial vehicle manufacturer King Long. The bus, which lacks a steering wheel, driver's seat and brake, is instead equipped with a Baidu Apollo autonomous driving system, which is able to perceive its surroundings, predict the movements of vehicles and pedestrians, and plan optimized routes based on high-definition maps and intelligent sensing capability, according to Chen Weixiang, vice CTO of King Long. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
