DRIVERLESS CARS HYUNDAI UNVEILS IONIQ 5-BASED ROBO TAXI
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group unveiled the IONIQ 5-based self- driving robo taxi ahead of its showcase at the IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich in September. Hyundai Motor Group and Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture, have jointly developed the IONIQ 5 robo taxi with the Level 4 autonomous driving system, the group said in a statement. The group said it plans to supply the Level 4 IONIQ 5 robo taxis to U.S. ride-sharing app Lyft in 2023. A Level 4 vehicle can drive itself under limited conditions and will not operate if all required conditions are not satisfied. At Level 5, a vehicle’s automated driving features can drive under any conditions. Hyundai and U.S. mobility startup Aptiv
formed the US$4 billion 50:50 joint venture in March 2020 to seek synergy in future mobility solutions. In February, the maker of the Sonata sedan and the Palisade SUV unveiled the IONIQ5 all-electric model embedded with the group’s own EV- only electric-global modular platform (E-GMP) in line with rival carmakers’
electrification push. According to Motional, there are more than 30 sensors on the exterior of the Ioniq 5 including at least 3 lidar sensors along with an assortment of high- resolution cameras and radars. As a vehicle intended for completely driverless operation, the Motional Ioniq 5 has been equipped with redundant systems for power supply, steering, braking and navigation as well as a remote vehicle assistance system in case the robotaxi gets into a situation it doesn’t know how to handle. The Ioniq 5 is expected to have a range of up to 300 miles on a charge, but the power consumption of the sensors and compute for the automated driving system will probably cut that to somewhere between 150 and 175 miles.
MOBILEYE TO LAUNCH PILOT SCHEME FOR AUTONOMOUS TAXIS IN TEL AVIV AND MUNICH IN 2022
Intel Corporation’s Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based maker of self-driving technologies, will roll out a pilot for autonomous taxis and ride-hailing services in Munich and Tel Aviv next year, pending regulatory approval, in collaboration with German- headquartered international car rental and mobility service giant Sixt SE. According to The Times of Israel, the announcement was made on Tuesday 7 September, by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the annual IAA Mobility 2021 confer- ence (also known as the International Motor Show Germany) in Munich. Intel bought Mobileye in 2017 for a whopping $15.3 billion. Mobileye will own the fleet of vehicles - which it calls “robotaxis” - powered by the company’s fully integrated self- driving system, dubbed Mobileye Drive, and developed specifically for com- mercial, driverless ride-hailing services. Sixt will maintain and operate the fleet both in Israel and Germany.
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Riders will be able to access the service on an app developed by Moovit, the Israeli smart transit data company Intel bought last year for some $900 million, as well as the Sixt app, which combines ride-hailing, car rental, car-sharing and other offerings. The vehicles in the Mobileye fleet are orange NIO SE8s, an electric seven- seater SUV made by Chinese EV manufacturer NIO, with which the com- pany signed a collaboration agreement in 2019. According to the deal, NIO produces the Mobileye Drive system for
Mobileye and integrates its Level 4 Autonomous Vehicle technology into its EV lines for consumer markets as well as for driverless ride-hailing services. Mobileye began testing autonomous vehicles (AVs) in Munich last summer, after obtaining an AV testing permit recommendation from the country’s independent technical service provider TÜV SÜD. It was the first city in Europe to approve the pilot, which built on Mobileye’s existing programme in Israel where the company has been testing self-driving vehicles since 2018. The company launched similar pilots in Detroit, New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai this year, with plans to soon begin testing in Paris. In May, Germany adopted legislation that allows Level 4 autonomous driving on public roads in specific areas in 2022, paving the way for companies to deploy driverless taxis and other autonomous mobility services such as deliveries in the country at scale.
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