SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that the number of passengers on autonomous vehicles has exceeded 20,000 after 14 months of operation, with the buses and cars operating in Sangam, Cheonggyecheon, and the Blue House. The autonomous bus at the Blue House has been popular with visitors, with 14,250 people using [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled a brake failure response system for autonomous vehicles via its corporate website. In a situation that calls for brakes to be applied, the system checks the operation of the main braking device through an engine control unit (ECU). If there is no response, it [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it plans to spend 1.1 trillion won (US$974 million) by 2027 to speed up the development of Level 4 self-driving vehicles and boost related technologies. At Level 4, one stage before full autonomy, the vehicle can drive itself under limited conditions and does not require [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Aptiv, said Tuesday it has tested self-driving vehicles on public roads in the United States, becoming one of the world’s first companies to achieve Level 4 autonomy. The Boston-based company said it tested multiple autonomous vehicles with and without a safety [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to extend coverage of a high-precision road map, critical to the development of self-driving vehicles, up to 20,000 kilometers by 2022. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Sunday that it will develop a high-precision road map covering about 14,000 kilometers of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean insurance companies will start selling autonomous car-related insurance products from late this month, the financial watchdog said Thursday. The Financial Supervisory Service announced that the nation’s 12 non-life insurance companies will start selling new insurance products that can cover the risk related to accidents involving commercial self-driving [...]
QUEBEC CITY, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – LeddarTech®, an industry leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems, is proud to be a sponsor of Mobility Re-imagined MOVE 2020 America from September 1-3, 2020, as the conference goes all virtual for the first time. “LeddarTech is excited to be involved in this tremendous [...]
QUEBEC CITY and PASADENA, Calif., July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – LeddarTech®, an industry leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems, congratulates COAST Autonomous on the first deployment of the Leddar™ Pixell in an autonomous delivery vehicle (ADV) at the Kinney County Railport (KCRP) near Brackettville, Texas. KCRP is one of several railyards [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Monday it will expand its technical center in India in the latest move to strengthen software development for autonomous vehicles. The second technical center, which will be set up near Hyundai Mobis’ first one in Hyderabad, will focus on [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Korea will allow carmakers to launch and sell a vehicle with basic Level 3 self-driving technology in the domestic market from July, many drivers are in favor of the measure. Under the initial standards, the Level 3 autonomous car, which is capable of keeping the lane in [...]