Music Chang-hyeon, president and head of Hyundai Motor Group’s Superior Automobile Platform (AVP) Division and CEO of the group’s software program middle 42dot, tendered his resignation on Dec. 3. Music has been main the event of the group’s software program outlined autos (SDVs).
In line with business sources on Dec. 4, Music acknowledged in a message despatched to 42dot staff the day past, “By means of a gathering with Chairman (Chung Eui-sun), I’ve determined to step down from my positions as head of Hyundai Motor Group’s AVP Division and CEO of 42dot.” Music added, “My absence might trigger you short-term confusion, however it will be unable to interrupt your goals,” and “Please full the bridges that I couldn’t end constructing, making them robust.”
Music confessed, “We’ve been getting ready for the way forward for cars, the place solely SDVs and autonomous driving know-how stay—a subject the place international automakers have spent tens of trillions of gained and failed.” He lamented, “The seemingly reckless problem of instilling software program DNA into an enormous hardware-centric business and creating a synthetic intelligence (AI) system, not simply making a automotive, was a course of that was ‘really’ not straightforward and never easy.” He continued, “There have been numerous clashes between the tech startup and the legacy business firm,” and “Whereas concurrently main the AVP and driving the large transition to an SDV, what stored me going every time I hit numerous invisible partitions was the eagerness of the leaders and all of you at 42dot.”
This assertion from Music suggests that there have been inside disagreements and conflicts inside Hyundai Motor Group concerning the event course of autonomous driving know-how. Music, who served as Naver’s first chief know-how officer (CTO) in 2015, left the corporate in January 2019 to determine 42dot. Following the corporate’s acquisition by Hyundai Motor in 2022, he has been main the SDV enterprise division.
Trade insiders additionally interpret that Music resigned to take accountability for failing to supply distinct ends in the autonomous driving know-how sector. Hyundai had beforehand been growing a rule-based autonomous driving technique, which entails coaching synthetic intelligence (AI) on automobile driving knowledge and highway situation situations. Nonetheless, with the recruitment of Music, the corporate shifted its course to end-to-end autonomous driving, a way just like Tesla’s. However, it has confronted criticism for not attaining superior outcomes in comparison with its rivals.
Tesla is accelerating the home launch of its superior driver-assistance characteristic, “Full Self-Driving Supervised.” Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Honda have already geared up their manufacturing autos with Degree 3 (conditional autonomous driving) know-how in abroad markets.
