SEJONG, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will arrange events to encourage the development of technologies for cooperative autonomous driving. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will hold a cooperative self-driving week Monday through Friday, where it will conduct an infrastructure inter-compatibility test and demonstrate technology for a platoon driving system. [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The accident involving an Uber self-driving car that occurred in Arizona on March 18, which resulted in the death of a pedestrian crossing the street, has South Korean autonomous car researchers at work to develop technology that would enhance the road safety of autonomous cars. In addition to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Technology to combat drowsy driving, a major safety hazard, will become commercially available this year. The Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) in a statement issued on January 9 unveiled its core areas of emphasis this year to be the improvement of road safety and the enhancement of current R&D [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) — South Korea will open a test bed road for self-driving cars to allow companies and researchers to check their cars in a real road environment, the transport ministry said Monday. The 320,000 square meter facility, called “K-City,” has been under construction in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province with some 11 billion won [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A testing site named ‘K-City’, a virtual city where autonomous cars will be tested in real road settings in preparation for transportation of the future is set to be built in the city of Hwaseong in Gyeonggi Province next year. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has launched its project to develop a new test bed for self-driving cars that will also include the development of new technologies to test autonomous cars, the government said Tuesday. The new test bed, called the K-city, will be built around the Korea Transportation Safety Authority’s existing [...]