Apollong, the world’s first widely produced “Level 4” autonomous bus, has rolled off the production line and is now ready for commercial use, said Robin Li, CEO of Chinese technology giant Baidu, at the company’s developer conference on July 4.

The autonomous bus was jointly developed by Baidu and Chinese bus maker King Long.

According to the president of King Long, Xie Siyu, the bus has been designed with no steering wheel, driver’s seat, gas pedal or brake pedal.

Li believes that the development of auto-pilot vehicles will be driven by software rather than traditional mechanical parts. “Though the number of parts used for Apollong has been reduced, the vehicle’s open codes grew six-fold over the last year,” he said.

The auto-pilot buses will be sent to Beijing, Xiong’an, Shenzhen, Pingtan, Wuhan and Tokyo for commercial services. Baidu also struck a deal with Japan’s SoftBank Group for Apollong buses to be used as shuttle services in the country’s nuclear power stations.