Hyundai Motor, Kia and NVIDIA Expand Partnership for Autonomous Driving Technology
Hyundai Motor and Kia have expanded their partnership with NVIDIA to develop next-generation autonomous driving solutions, targeting Level 2 and above systems.
- Level 2 to Level 4
- Level 4
What Happened
Hyundai Motor and Kia announced an expanded strategic partnership with NVIDIA to advance autonomous driving technology. The collaboration combines Hyundai Motor Group's SDV capabilities with NVIDIA's autonomous driving technology to create next-generation solutions for Level 2 and above systems, including Level 4 robotaxis via Motional.
- Real-world driving data collection across vehicle fleet
- AI model training and performance improvement
- Deployment and validation in production vehicles
“The expanded partnership with NVIDIA marks an important milestone in realizing Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for safe and reliable autonomous driving technology. Based on a unified, Group-wide collaborative framework, we will strengthen our differentiated technological competitiveness — from Level 2 and above autonomous driving technology to Level 4 robotaxi services.”
Why this matters
This partnership combines Hyundai's SDV expertise with NVIDIA's AI and autonomous driving platforms to accelerate development of safe, intelligent self-driving cars for production vehicles and robotaxi services.
Terms in This Story
- SDV
- A vehicle whose features and functions are primarily enabled through software, allowing over-the-air updates.
- Robotaxi
- A self-driving taxi that operates without a human driver.
- Level 2 autonomy
- Partial driving automation where the vehicle can control steering and acceleration/deceleration, but the driver must monitor at all times.
- Level 4 autonomy
- High driving automation where the vehicle can perform all driving tasks under certain conditions without driver intervention.
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