Autonomous-driving Development

Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, will promote Detroit of the U.S. as a base for autonomous-driving technology research and development.
Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, will promote Detroit of the U.S. as a base for autonomous-driving technology research and development.

 

Hyundai Motor Co., the nation’s top automaker, will promote Detroit of the U.S. as a base for autonomous-driving technology research and development. Making use of an autonomous vehicle testing ground being built by the Michigan state government, the company plans to advance the age of self-driving car commercialization by 2020.

According to industry sources on August 24, Hyundai Motor has recently decided to use the testing ground being built at the Willow Run site outside Detroit in Michigan of the U.S.

The test bed, which is scheduled to be completed in the winter of 2017, has exactly reproduced the city as well as public roads and high ways. Looser state regulations on autonomous cars and the state’s active support also make it easier for the company to test its autonomous technologies.

In a bid to make Detroit as the hub of autonomous driving research and development, the Michigan state purchased the Willow Run site, which produced bombers during World War II, and is establishing the autonomous vehicle testing ground in the site. Considering the fact that there is the Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center, which employs 200 people, nearby, Detroit is expected to be the center of Hyundai Motor’s self-driving technologies.

 

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