Hyundai looks forward with self-driving 'R Car' - Korea JoongAng Daily
At the Hyundai Motor Group High-Tech Research Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi, the country’s biggest automaker is preparing its secret weapon: a futuristic self-driving vehicle called the “R Car. The car includes a hydrogen fuel cell, which Hyundai successfully mass produced for the first time in history. “While the Hyundai Kia Motors R&D Center in Hwaseong is aimed to study technologies for the current market, this institute [in Uiwang] is dedicated to inventing future-oriented technologies for the market decades ahead of now,” said Rim Tae-won,... The R Car is a symbol of Hyundai’s goal to stay ahead in an automotive market that now includes IT giants like Google and Apple. In March, Mercedes-Benz successfully completed a 40-kilometer (24-mile) test drive of its first self-driving car, the F 015, in San Francisco without any assistance from the human driver. How does Hyundai’s new car stack up. To find out, a reporter from the JoongAng Ilbo sat in on a test-drive on Aug. 13, at the test-drive track in the Uiwang center. While many HUD technologies currently on the market offer simple information, like a map or the car’s speed, the R Car’s HUD explains to the driver what the vehicle is seeing and how it is responding to things like other drivers and obstacles on... Source: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
