Kia, along with sister company Hyundai, plans to test partial and totally autonomous driving technologies with the goal of having its first driverless car on the market by 2030. Kia and Hyundai are investing $2 billion US in their new Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and expect their first vehicles to have partially-autonomous driving technology to be available by 2020.
Meanwhile, Google is in talks with the British government over the possibility of bringing driverless cars to the United Kingdom. According to records obtained by the Telegraph under the Freedom of Information Act, Britain’s Department of Transport has met with Google five times over the past two years, with the US company seeing the UK as a key market for its driverless cars.
Google’s cars have chalked up more than one million miles of driving on public roads in tests in the US. The cars have ‘lidar’’ sensor technology to detect pedestrians and other traffic. While early lidar sensors cost upwards of $100,000 Cdn and more, researchers have developed technology to considerably reduce their cost, size and power consumption.
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