Chinese search engine Baidu is widely known as the Google of China, and it looks like the company plans to go toe-to-toe against Google with a self-driving car of its own. According to statements attributed to Kai Yu, a deputy director of a Baidu research group focused on machine learning, the company is working on a highly autonomous car. Yu tells The Next Web that its an intelligent assistant collecting data from road situations and then operating locally, adding, We don’t call this a driverless car.