China's Baidu taps 50 partners to help advance self-driving
July 05, 2017 at 12:08 PM EDT
DETROIT, July 5 (Reuters) - Baidu Inc, the top Chinese internet search firm, has formed a broad alliance to promote self-driving cars, pitting its Apollo platform against Alphabet Inc's system, it said on Wednesday, in hopes of getting the vehicles on the road in China by 2019.