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Baidu demonstrates fully automated driving without an onboard safety driver

Baidu Apollo demonstrated fully automated driving at Beijing's Shougang Park with no safety driver inside the vehicle. A 5G remote-driving service remained available for exceptional emergencies, preserving an offboard human fallback.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM27confidence 88/100

Why it moved the index

The demonstration removed the onboard safety driver from a consequential physical system, showing increased operational autonomy. It remained a controlled-park demonstration with remote human intervention available, which substantially limits magnitude.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 27 · confidence 88

    New source-verified September 2020 consequential-autonomy demonstration absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Baidu demonstrates fully automated driving without an onboard safety driver” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 27 and confidence 88 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “Baidu demonstrates fully automated driving without an onboard safety driver” as follows: Baidu Apollo demonstrated fully automated driving at Beijing's Shougang Park with no safety driver inside the vehicle. A 5G...

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