At Baidu World 2026, Baidu announced that Luobo Kuaipao has teamed up with Shenzhou Car Rental to launch the world's first driverless self-drive tour service, blending traditional self-drive travel with autonomous driving technology. The service has been running in Hainan for a full year, removing the driver's license requirement for self-drive travel and offering five signature experiences, including driver-free guided chartered rides and the convenience of picking up and returning the car at different locations. To date, Luobo Kuaipao has deployed in 28 cities worldwide, achieved fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai, and is running tests in multiple locations. On the eve of the conference, Baidu Apollo unveiled Apollo World, an agent-driven omni-modal world model for physical AI, which has been used in Luobo Kuaipao's global testing and validation to support the scaled deployment of autonomous driving.
