Autonomous Driving Concept Stocks Insight | BIDU-W (09888.HK) Traded Stronger in the Afternoon, Apollo Go Deployed in 27 Global Cities with Over 22 Million Cumulative Rides

NewTimeSpace News: On October 23, 2026,BIDU-W(09888.HK) trended higher in the afternoon session. As of 14:21, it was quoted at HK$76.25, up 1.53%.

According to Economic Information Daily, as of May this year, Baidu’s Apollo Go has been launched in 27 cities worldwide, completing more than 22 million travel services in total. In Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Apollo Go obtained a fully driverless test permit issued by the local Roads and Transport Authority in January this year and has since launched commercial operations. A Baidu official stated that the company has secured a fully driverless test qualification for right-hand-drive vehicles in Hong Kong, and such capability can be replicated in markets including the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia.

China Business Journal noted that the internet of vehicles is inherently cross-industry. The large-scale adoption of autonomous driving requires not only standards for complete vehicles and components, but also coordinated specifications covering information and communications, intelligent transportation, intelligent vehicle management, electronic products and related services.

BIDU-W (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.