Qilai Shen/BloombergBaidu President Ya-Qin Zhang has a mild-mannered style at odds with his bold goals for “Apollo,” the fast-growing, open-source self-driving car platform the Chinese tech giant launched in July. So-called Level 4 autonomous cars, which can drive themselves in geo-fenced urban areas and on highways, follow in 2021. There will be a bunch of closed systems that continue to exist, but we believe in the long run an open system will be the mainstream. With an open system we put a lot of security experts there to look for the holes and look out for security issues. “A closed system is not necessarily more secure.

Source: Forbes October 27, 2017 18:33 UTC