DAEJEON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced Thursday that a joint team of researchers from ETRI, Samsung Electronics, NextChip, and Unmanned Solution had developed Aldebaran, a gigahertz-scale processor that will serve as the brain of future self-driving vehicles. Such processors gather data from various sensors on an autonomous vehicle [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul National University unveiled Tuesday the SNUber2, an urban self-driving vehicle and the follow-up model to the original SNUber, which was introduced in November 2015, and used for transporting disabled students around campus. Developed by the school’s Intelligent Vehicle IT Research Center, the new generation vehicle is suitable for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to expand sections of roads available for the test-run of self-driving cars in the country as part of efforts to further support the development of domestic autonomous vehicles, the transportation ministry said Thursday. Earlier, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has designated sections of existing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group’s YouTube video of a Kia Soul EV parking itself went viral among car enthusiasts, accumulating over 200,000 views in less than a day. The video, which was filmed at Hyundai’s research institute in Gyeonggi Province (Uiwang), shows a driver stepping out of a vehicle and using [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said on Tuesday it will push to nurture artificial intelligence (AI), unmanned vehicle technologies and seven other key IT fields as new growth engines. The announcement was made at a science and technology strategy session presided over by President Park Geun-hye, the Ministry of Science, ICT and [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government issued a temporary license plate Monday for the nation’s first self-driving car. The Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan equipped with a high-tech driving assist system will be able to hit the road along six routes designated by the transport ministry.’ The move is part of efforts to [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving cars could hit South Korean roads by 2020, an official said Friday, in an apparent move to stay ahead of the global competition for autonomous vehicles. South Korea will develop sensors and other autonomous technologies while cutting red tape for driverless cars, presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said. He [...]