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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Robotaxis stop working in mass ‘system failure’ trapping passengers in Chinese city

Several passengers of China’s driverless robotaxis were stranded inside their cars for over 90 minutes after their vehicle abruptly came to a halt in the middle of the road, in one of the latest reported fleet-wide outages of Chinese tech giant Baidu.

Police in China’s central city of Wuhan said a “system malfunction” caused more than 100 Apollo Go self-driving taxis to freeze in traffic.

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