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Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure'

S3 · 03/31
2026 · Baidu Apollo Go · Wuhan, Hubei, China

Record

CompanyBaidu Apollo Go
Categoryav trucking
Typeoutage
Date03/31
2026
Time of daynot documented
LocationWuhan, Hubei, China
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale100+ vehicles
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceReuters/CarNewsChina/The Verge

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Over 100 Apollo Go robotaxis froze on Wuhan's elevated highways during a mass system failure, stranding passengers in live traffic; police confirmed the cause as a system failure.

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