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Baidu robotaxi falls into construction pit in China

S2 · 08/2025 · Baidu Apollo Go · China

Record

Company	Baidu Apollo Go
Category	av trucking
Type	crash
Date	08/2025
Time of day	not documented
Location	China
Severity	S2 (minor injury or single-unit damage)
Scale	1 robotaxi
Confidence	medium
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	Tech in Asia/Gulf News

What happened

An Apollo Go robotaxi drove into an uncovered construction pit, a navigation/perception failure incident with no reported injuries.

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