Baidu is China’s equivalent to Google, and just like Google, it too has ambitions to market self-driving electric cars. The Chinese internet company announced it wanted to get into the electric car game back in 2020, and not long ago it announced Geely as a strategic partner (as did Google's Waymo).
Now it is teasing a vehicle it plans to launch in 2023 under a new brand called JiDU. They call it Robocar and it will be fully unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April, but the teaser does give us a glimpse at the upcoming study said to be 90 percent representative of next year’s production vehicle.
We aren’t shown much in the teaser, although we can see the vehicle will have sensors that come out of its hood, like small turrets, and then they retract and are covered by a flap. We can’t quite make out what body type it is, but it appears to have frameless doors that not only open outward, but also upward (this could just be feature of the concept, though, and not make it to production).
