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A service that calls a self-driving car home late at night when it is difficult to use public transportation is being piloted. It is evaluated as stable and convenient, and there is also an expectation that it will lead the leap in domestic autonomous driving technology.
This is reporter Hyung-woo Hyung.
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front of Oido Station in Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do. By making a reservation through the app, the autonomous vehicle arrives on time.
Let's move from Oido Station to the Siheung Campus of Seoul National University by autonomous driving.
It changes lanes by detecting nearby vehicles with lidar, an ultrasonic sensor mounted on top of the vehicle, without operating the steering wheel.
When it changes to a red traffic light, it gradually stops.
[The traffic light and our vehicle continue to receive GPS signals and depart when the distance from the vehicle in front increases.] The
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Seoul National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation conducted a pilot project for a safe return shuttle using an autonomous vehicle in Baegot New Town, Siheung, since May last year. I did.
[Kim Mi-kyung/Living in Siheung City: There was a very inconvenient thing because public transportation was cut off late at night, but you can go home comfortably.] It
is a method in which citizens use five routes of self-driving car service through an app at night time
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It is evaluated that it was helpful in acquiring practical operating skills of driving vehicles.
[Lee Kyung-soo / Director of Future Mobility Technology Center, Seoul National University: Building a smart mobility service system using self-driving cars and building a system that ordinary citizens can use in real road environments (meaningful)] In
this project, Level 3 autonomous driving technology, which the driver manually switches and drives, was used.
(Video coverage: Yoo Dong-hyuk, video editing: Kim Byung-jik)