Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun said relating to autonomous car improvement course that he would “give attention to security.” As autonomous driving expertise competitors intensifies between Tesla and Chinese language firms, Hyundai Motor Group has offered a course that prioritizes buyer security over velocity. The remarks got here after President Tune Chang-hyun of Hyundai Motor Group’s AVP Division, who had led the event of autonomous driving and software-defined car (SDV), expressed his resignation on Dec. 3, resulting in observations that the corporate will undertake reorganization of its analysis and improvement (R&D) group.
At Kia’s eightieth anniversary ceremony held at Kia Imaginative and prescient Sq. in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province on Dec. 5, Chung advised reporters relating to autonomous driving expertise, “Since Chinese language firms and Tesla are doing properly, we’re considerably behind,” including “Motional, our three way partnership in the USA, is working arduous, however there could also be some hole.” He continued, “What’s extra necessary than that hole is security, so we’re pondering of prioritizing the protection side.”
These remarks are interpreted as being aware of Tesla’s introduction of supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) in Korea and Tune’s resignation. Whereas conventional automakers reminiscent of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Honda have put in Stage 3 (conditional autonomous driving) autonomous driving expertise of their autos in abroad markets, Hyundai Motor has not achieved notable outcomes. Hyundai Motor had been creating a “rule-based autonomous driving” technique that trains synthetic intelligence (AI) with car driving information and street state of affairs eventualities, however shifted course to Tesla’s “end-to-end autonomous driving” technique after Tune joined in 2022, although it has not reached precise implementation.
Hyundai Motor Group plans to unveil an SDV face automobile by mid-next 12 months and commercialize Stage 2 Plus autonomous driving expertise by the tip of 2027. The corporate has set a purpose to launch Stage 3 full autonomous autos in 2028.
When requested concerning the path ahead, Chung answered, “It’s tough to clarify in a single phrase, and since we’ve had many ups and downs previously, we are able to name it a problem,” including “We are going to proceed to problem ourselves and keep it up the ideas that Kia founder (Kim Chul-ho) and Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo had.”
Chung in contrast Kia, which marks its eightieth anniversary, to an “unrefined diamond.” He mentioned, “Kia has very primitive and robust individuality,” evaluating that “if polished properly, it has the character to be born as a superb jewel.”
He continued, “We thank the individuals and authorities officers who’ve supported Kia for 80 years,” saying “We are going to do properly by referring to the elements we did properly previously and the errors we made.”
