“Autonomous driving on general roads without a driver”… Hyundai Motor Company-Aptiv Joint Venture Momental, Test Drive in the US

Input 2021.02.23 08:43

Hyundai Motor (005380)Motal, a joint venture between the group and the U.S. self-driving startup Aptiv, successfully completed the autonomous driving test without a driver on the general road.

In this month’s test drive in Las Vegas, USA, several unmanned self-driving cars went through intersections, unprotected turns, and crowded roads with pedestrians and cyclists. In general, safety personnel are in the driver’s seat to check the route and emergency stop in the pilot driving of an unmanned autonomous vehicle, but the safety personnel did not intervene in this momentary test drive.

Over the years, MOTIONAL has developed unmanned autonomous driving technology, passed 1.5 million miles (about 2.43 million km) of preliminary tests, and spent more than 100,000 hours and two years of self-safety evaluation with hundreds of thousands of personnel. MOTIONAL has been verified by TÜV SÜD, a global testing and certification body with extensive experience in the evaluation of driverless self-driving vehicle technology, for its autonomous driving system, technology, and operational capabilities. In November of last year, it obtained a permit from the state of Nevada to test unmanned autonomous vehicles on public roads.

During several months of preliminary evaluation, TUV experts reviewed in-depth interviews of Mocial employees, safety structure design evaluation, test procedure and result analysis, test procedure evaluation, personnel qualifications and competence, etc. Null has obtained the general road driving test certification. In the process, Mocial has traveled a distance that can round the Earth multiple times, and has been tested for 1.5 million miles in a variety of road environments, cities and vehicle platforms.

“Motional’s technology has been achieved through decades of innovation, constant safety efforts, millions of miles of test driving, and rigorous external verification,” said Karl Iagnemma, CEO of Motal. “The trial run on public roads will be an important turning point for safe, reliable and economical driverless vehicles.”

Meanwhile, from 2023, Motive will introduce the largest fully unmanned autonomous driving service along with the US vehicle-sharing company Lift. Since last year, Motive has been providing the lift with a robo-taxi service to commercialize the unmanned autonomous vehicle technology. MOTIONAL and LIFT operate the world’s longest commercial robot taxi service, providing more than 100,000 boarding services without a single breakdown or accident.