Autonomous Driving Concept Stocks Watch | BIDU-SW (09888.HK) Gains Strength in Afternoon Trading; Apollo Go Launches Public Road Tests in London with Free Now

NewTimeSpace News: On 29 July 2026,BIDU-SW(09888.HK) traded stronger in the afternoon session. As of 14:38, the stock’s intraday quotation was HK$103.00, marking a 1.38% increase.

In market news, Baidu Apollo Go teamed up with Lyft Group’s subsidiary Free Now to kick off public road tests in London on 28 July. The two sides plan to roll out autonomous mobility services for local residents starting in 2027.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Information Co., Ltd. announced on 28 July that it will launch the ChiNext Intelligent Driving Index on 31 July. The index will select 50 ChiNext stocks with large total market capitalisation from enterprises engaged in intelligent driving-related sectors including intelligent perception, decision-making algorithms and smart automotive components as constituent samples, so as to further improve the specialised index system for ChiNext.

BIDU-SW (09888.HK) Focuses on the R&D of L4 autonomous driving algorithms and the commercialization of unmanned Robotaxis. Leveraged by the ERNIE foundational model and optimized by the Qianfan compute base, its "Apollo Go" autonomous ride-hailing service has achieved large-scale, normalized commercial operations across multiple core cities in China, with cumulative autonomous test mileage exceeding hundreds of millions of kilometers. Through high-frequency, high-confidence real-world road test data cleansing, the company continues to solidify the most robust data asset and algorithmic moat within the HKEX autonomous driving sector.

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