DAEJEON, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new material that can heal scratches on sensors in self-driving cars. This has some pretty significant implications, because signal distortion caused by scratches on sensor surfaces poses a significant risk factor for autonomous vehicle traffic accidents. Recognition errors or malfunctioning vision [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) who received a suspended prison sentence for leaking self-driving car technology to China is set to appeal the verdict after a year and eight months. The case was severely criticized by lawmakers during a parliamentary audit of [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of high schoolers have been lauded for building a self-driving vehicle that is now being used to carry waste at school. A software club at Gwangdeok High School in the southwestern city of Gwangju, consisting of 18 student members from the 9th to 12th grades, recently built [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea SMEs and Startups Agency announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with five representative agencies in Saemangeum, including the Korea Agency for Saemangeum Development and Investment (KASDI), to develop the Saemangeum area as a new hub of electric, self-driving automobiles. The agreement also [...]
UIJEONGBU, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first driverless vehicle, dubbed “Zero Shuttle”, will soon be tested on the roads of Seongnam City after it passes the last stages of its safety inspection. Gyeonggi Province stated that it is aiming for a road test before the end of this year, and that the Korea [...]
GOYANG, South Korea, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Making an appearance at an auto show for the first time, Naver, operator of Korea’s leading web portal, showcased its ambitious self-driving technology at the 2017 Seoul Motor Show. But it wasn’t the Naver autonomous vehicle that the tech giant was bragging about at the show, it [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top Internet portal operator Naver on Monday became the last to join a race here for the development of self-driving cars after gaining government permission for a road test of its autonomous vehicle. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it has issued a license for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to become one of the world’s first countries to put autonomous cars to actual use this year, introducing its first self-driving bus, a government report showed Thursday. According to the report from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the government plans to introduce a self-driving [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Autonomous vehicles approved for temporary operation in Korea have so far proven safe, after nine months of road testing. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Monday, the 11 self-driving cars – from Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors, Hyundai Mobis, Seoul National University, Hanyang University, and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Leading South Korean automakers Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors have taken another step towards commercializing self-driving vehicles. With the memorandum of understanding signed Monday between Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors and the city of Hwaseong, the two companies will be able to test vehicles equipped with V2X (or [...]