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Baidu Apollo Go

Products: robotaxi, av-software. Risk band: High   RobotRisk index 52.7/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 5 of 15 among AV trucking companies with incidents (93 tracked).

Analyst brief

Baidu Apollo Go's index of 52.7 ranks 5 of 15 companies in AV trucking with incident history. The record spans nearly a year, from an August 2025 construction-pit incident through a December 2025 pedestrian-strike crash with two victims in intensive care to an April 2026 system-failure outage that led Chinese regulators to suspend new AV permits. The mix of a government suspension of permits alongside two crash entries and one outage indicates both regulatory and operational dimensions rather than a single-cause record. The trajectory across four chronologically distinct entries, escalating from a non-injury pit incident to a multi-victim crash to a regulator-triggered permit suspension, shows a pattern rather than an isolated event, with the regulatory suspension representing the most consequential entry.

Risk index

52.7/100RobotRisk index
32.1/100Median index across the 15 AV trucking companies with incident history (93 tracked, 78 with none)
5 of 15Rank in AV trucking (of 15 with incident history)
HighRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
crash250%
regulatory125%
outage125%

Unique incident list

4 unique incidents on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S3~Apr 2026 regulatory ChinaChina suspends new AV permits after Baidu's mass outage · nationwide AV permits Automotive World
S331 Mar 2026 outage Wuhan, Hubei, ChinaBaidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure' · 100+ vehicles Reuters/CarNewsChina/The
S406 Dec 2025 crash ChinaBaidu Apollo Go robotaxi strikes two pedestrians in Zhuzhou, both in intensive care · 1 robotaxi, 2 injured CarNewsChina.com
S2~Aug 2025 crash ChinaBaidu robotaxi falls into construction pit in China · 1 robotaxi Tech in Asia/Gulf News
S3 ~Apr 2026 · regulatory · China suspends new AV permits after Baidu's mass outage
China1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S3~Apr 2026China suspends new AV permits after Baidu's mass outageAutomotive World
S3 31 Mar 2026 · outage · Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure'
Wuhan, Hubei, China1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S331 Mar 2026Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure'Reuters/CarNewsChina/The
S4 06 Dec 2025 · crash · Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi strikes two pedestrians in Zhuzhou, both in intensive care
China1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S406 Dec 2025Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi strikes two pedestrians in Zhuzhou, both in intensive careCarNewsChina.com
S2 ~Aug 2025 · crash · Baidu robotaxi falls into construction pit in China
China1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S2~Aug 2025Baidu robotaxi falls into construction pit in ChinaTech in Asia/Gulf News

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