SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday it will carry out a test-run of a Level-4 autonomous vehicle in Seoul in the first half of next year as it pushes to get an edge in the future mobility service. South Korea’s No. 1 automaker unveiled the plan during the 2021 Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading car-sharing app operator SoCar has teamed up with a local vehicle tech startup to launch an autonomous car shuttle service on the resort island of Jeju, the company said Monday. The collaboration with RideFlux Inc., which officially began earlier in the day, marks the first time [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow carmakers to sell a vehicle with basic Level 3 self-driving technology in the domestic market from July, the transport ministry said Sunday, claiming that the country is the first to adopt safety standards for the limited self-driving vehicle. The government has adopted a set of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday it will test a ‘self-driving robo-taxi’ in Russia it has developed with Russian internet search firm Yandex. Under an initial agreement signed in March, Hyundai and Yandex have developed a driverless riding platform based on Hyundai’s Sonata midsize sedan. They will begin testing 100 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Thursday it will test a self-driving vehicle in the United States this year, with an aim to mass-produce a semi-autonomous car in 2022. The company said it plans to start test driving a vehicle named M.BILLY on the motorways [...]
YEOJU, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has announced that it held an international event showcasing smart road technology suited for autonomous vehicles in the presence of a number of international observers. The event took place at a test site in Yeoju on November 20, with journalists and officials from [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Autonomous cars are forecast to become popular in the South Korean auto market in 2028, five years after they do so in the United States, according to analysts Monday. According to the industry analysts in a book published by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, self-driving cars [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top automotive parts supplier Hyundai Mobis Co. said Sunday it will develop technologies for highway driving capable autonomous cars by 2020, with an aim to commercialize them two years later. The company plans to develop the autonomous driving technologies mainly to help two affiliates — Hyundai Motor [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to showcase its first self-driving vehicle in December, industry sources said Sunday, heralding the full-fledged commercialization of the novel technology in the country. Hyundai plans to roll out the latest version of its Genesis luxury sedan equipped with the so-called [...]