Hyundai Delays Own Driver-Assist Tech to 2029 - Technology Org
Hyundai Delays Own Driver-Assist Tech to 2029 - Technology Org
摘要: Hyundai Delays Its Own Driver-Assist Software to Late 2029
Hyundai Pushes Back Its Autonomy Software
The man reshaping Hyundai’s auto
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Hyundai Delays Its Own Driver-Assist Software to Late 2029
Hyundai Pushes Back Its Autonomy Software
The man reshaping Hyundai’s autonomy strategy used to work at Nvidia. Park Min-woo joined the South Korean carmaker in January as a group president, and the plan he has produced since then looks very little like the one his predecessor left behind. Hyundai will now launch vehicles running its own driver-assistance software
in late 2029
, two years later than promised, and will lean on Nvidia silicon to fill the gap.
Image credit: Hyundai
Key Takeaways
Hyundai’s proprietary platform, named Atria, slips from a late-2027 debut to late 2029, while Nvidia-based Level 2+ and Level 2++ systems arrive in 2028.
Cars built on Nvidia’s Hyperion 10 platform will skip costly lidar at first, using cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar, though lidar remains under consideration for Level 3.
Hyundai and Kia together rank as the world’s third-largest carmaker with more than 7 million annual sales, and expect to lead rivals on accumulated driving data by 2033.
Park’s predecessor, Song Chang-hyeon, had concentrated on building the software stack internally. He departed abruptly in December. Park arrived from the chipmaker and has since deepened the relationship between the two companies across autonomous driving, AI data centres and the humanoid robots developed by Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics.
He rejects the reading that Hyundai has outsourced its future. “Our partnership with Nvidia is not about leaving our destiny entirely in their hands,” Park told a media briefing. The two companies will co-design the technology, he said, and Hyundai will feed the resulting data back into training and refining Atria.
What Ships, and When
The 2028 systems fall into two tiers. Level 2+ generally covers more capable highway driving. Level 2++ handles complex urban situations, closer to what Tesla markets as Full Self-Driving. Both still require a driver paying attention, w