Hyundai Motor and Kia to Demonstrate Autonomous Driving in Gwangju, Deploying AI-Based Platform 'Shuckle'

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Hyundai Motor and Kia will officially launch an autonomous driving demonstration project in Gwangju Metropolitan City starting in the second half of this year.

On the 13th, Hyundai Motor and Kia signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Gwangju Metropolitan City to establish an autonomous driving demonstration city, and agreed to form a public-private council to jointly carry out the project. This demonstration project is scheduled to begin in some areas, including Gwangsan-gu, this year, and expand to the entire Gwangju area next year.

Hyundai Motor and Kia will take on three main roles: providing autonomous vehicles, operating the service platform, and verifying autonomous driving technology. The vehicles deployed for the demonstration are manufactured based on existing Yangsan models and are designed to respond to various road environments, equipped with eight cameras and one radar as standard. The planned scale of vehicle supply is approximately 200 units, and the installation of additional sensors is being considered during the demonstration process.

As the service platform, Hyundai Motor and Kia's self-developed AI-based mobility platform, 'Shuckle,' will be used. This platform manages the entire process from vehicle dispatch to in-transit control, providing dispatch services that reflect real-time traffic conditions through AI route optimization technology.

The demonstration project will apply 'Atria AI,' Hyundai Motor and Kia's proprietary autonomous driving solution. Atria AI adopts an E2E (End to End) approach that connects the perception, decision-making, and control processes into a single AI model. This approach is more flexible in handling complex traffic environments than existing rule-based systems and has the advantage of improving technological maturity by comprehensively learning data collected on actual roads.

Park Min-woo, Head of the Hyundai Motor and Kia AVP Division, emphasized at the signing ceremony that accumulating data in real urban environments is crucial for ensuring the reliability and safety of autonomous driving technology. Park Min-woo stated that through cooperation with Gwangju City, they will lead the development of the domestic autonomous driving ecosystem.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Gwangju Metropolitan City plan to cooperate on administrative support and infrastructure construction to ensure the project proceeds smoothly, and to support the establishment of autonomous driving services as a daily mode of transportation for citizens. Additionally, Hyundai Motor and Kia announced plans to expand the autonomous driving service model to other regions in the future based on this Gwangju demonstration project.

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