(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Se-jin = Japanese automaker Honda began marketing a luxury sedan equipped with an automatic driving level 3 function on the 5th.
Level 3 is an intermediate stage of automatic driving that is divided into 1-5 stages, and the system is entirely in charge of driving except in urgent cases in a limited road environment such as a highway.
When the driving subject is switched to the system, the human driver can view the smartphone or operate the navigation without looking ahead.
Honda plans to install this feature on the new’Legend’, a luxury sedan, and sell a limited number of 100 units for lease only.
The market price in Japan is in the range of 11 million yen (about 115 million won) including tax.
(Tokyo Kyodo = Yonhap News) A new legend equipped with a level 3 level of automatic driving function, which Japanese automaker Honda started to sell limited to 100 units on the 5th.
Japanese media reported that Honda was the first among world car makers to market an autonomous vehicle with Level 3 function.
The new Legend activates the Level 3 function at a speed of less than 30 km/h, which is the level of congestion on the highway, and automatically follows the vehicle in front until it reaches 50 km.
When the Level 3 function is activated, the driver completely entrusts the steering wheel to the system.
When the environment changes to an environment that the driver must manipulate, such as over 50 km/h, an alarm sound or the seat belt vibrates.
“Highway accidents often occur when congestion is easy to carelessly at low speeds,” said Yoichi Sugimoto of the Honda Institute of Technology’s chief executive officer at a press conference the day before. I said I can do it.
(Tokyo Kyodo = Yonhap News) A new legend equipped with a level 3 level of automatic driving function, which Japanese automaker Honda started to sell limited to 100 units on the 5th.
It is pointed out that there are not a few tasks to be solved, such as safety issues and high prices, until Honda can market mass-produced models of Level 3 self-driving vehicles in earnest.
Level 3 vehicles have much higher precision than Level 2 sensors that monitor their surroundings, but there are cases in which the surrounding situation is not properly recognized under conditions such as bad weather.
For this reason, in Japan, it is mandatory to install an alarm system that allows the driver to switch to driver mode in case of an emergency, but it takes about 10 seconds for a driver who has not looked ahead to get into a steering position.
The Mainichi Newspaper quoted an automobile company official, saying, “The difficulty of driving shifts increases depending on the speed.”
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