Hyundai will be engaged in the development of technology autopilot

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The company has shared plans for future investment.

Hyundai Motor group announced its intention to invest in a startup Aurora Innovation Inc. – technological company, which started to operate last year, according to the Chronicle.info with reference to AvtoDream.

Aurora helps Koreans with the development of the autopilot for the hydrogen crossover NEXO. Invested in the project, Hyundai and KIA expect to accelerate the creation of appropriate systems.

At the new stage of cooperation between the Hyundai Group and Aurora Innovation will create a platform for unmanned vehicles and will include a wider range of models in range of their collaborative work.

In Aurora Innovation already invested the Amazon, Sequoia, Greylock. Earlier this month it was announced the beginning of cooperation with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the area of unmanned commercial vehicles.

The startup, based in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Pittsburgh, is developing a hardware and software platform Aurora Driver, which uses lidar, radar and cameras.

Last year, Hyundai Motor staged a continuous demonstration run of drones in the history of Korea: Hyundai model NEXO and the Genesis G80 drove 190 km from Seoul to Pyeongchang without drivers and the maximum speed allowed.

By 2021, Hyundai expects to bring to market a robotic taxi, corresponding to the fourth level of autonomy.

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