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Baidu is often referred to as "China's Google," but it's not quite the same. It's true, the company is working on it's own self-driving car, but it thinks Google's no-wheel design is all wrong. 百度经常被人称作“中国版谷歌”，但实际两者并没那么相似。百度确实正在推进自己的自动驾驶汽车项目，但同时它也全盘否认了谷歌的无方向盘设计。 According to Kai Yu, Baidu's Institute of Deep Learning's deputy director, autonomous vehicles need to be more like horses than robots. 百度深度学习研究院副院长余凯表示，自动驾驶车辆需要更像马一样，而不是机器人。 "A car should not totally replace the driver but should really give the driver freedom," Yu told TheNextWeb. "Freedom means the car is intelligent enough to operate by itself, like horse, and make decisions under different road situations." 余凯对美国科技博客TheNextWeb说道，“汽车不应该完全取代驾驶员，而是应该给驾驶员自由。所谓自由，就是指汽车的智能程度可达到自动驾驶的要求，像一匹马一样，而且可以根据不同路况进行决策。” The horse analogy sounds a little more like an advanced form of cruise control than a fully autonomous vehicle, but it's an interesting idea -- a horse will typically make a cautious, self preserving decision. There's something appealing about a car designed to keep itself (and by extension, the passengers) from harm. | 
