Baidu’s Apollo Go has received a Level 4 autonomous driving permit in Switzerland for AmiGo, a robotaxi service it is running with Swiss Post’s PostBus, putting the Chinese tech giant ahead of Waymo and Tesla in deploying driverless vehicles into European public transport.
The Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) special permit covers an 80 km² service area across three eastern cantons, and Baidu says the project is on track to become the largest planned automated public transport operation of its kind in Europe.
What FEDRO actually approved
AmiGo is an on-demand autonomous mobility service jointly developed by Apollo Go and PostBus, the bus operator of Swiss Post. On June 12, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced that FEDRO granted the service a special operating permit for Level 4 operations in Eastern Switzerland.
Open-road testing began on June 1, 2026, covering roughly 80 km² across the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, and Appenzell Innerrhoden. For now, the vehicles still run with a safety operator on board.
