According to Bloomberg, Hyundai General Manager Jin Jeong (Jeong Jin-Haeng) yesterday in Seoul for the Korea Ministry of industry and trade resources Chief Zhou Henghuan and companies CEO Forum. Zheng Zhen said Hyundai's in some businesses share a common direction with Google, or the two companies will cooperate.
In recent years, Korea's largest car company Hyundai has been looking for external expertise in order to remain competitive, so its discussions on further cooperation with Google is easy to understand. Hyundai information technology Vice President Hwang says with vehicle systems more complex, modern cannot cope with it all. In some areas, in order to shorten the gap needed in cooperation with partners.
Hyundai CarPlay Apple, Google Android Auto as well as Baidu CarLife software very active, for iPhone and Android handsets and car dashboards to achieve integration. Hello Kitty iPhone 6 Plus Case
Hi Investment and Securities Co. senior Automotive Analyst Ko Tae Bong says:
Hyundai driverless car has been behind the Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Ford and other traditional auto makers. Modern cars have no choice, and Google and other technology companies, is the prerequisite for its existence in the near future. Hello Kitty cases
Just yesterday, Ford announced plans to develop before 2021 no steering wheel and pedal automatic driving automobile, Lei feng's network (search for "Lei feng's network" public concerns) also first reported the news. To that end, Ford have invested manufacturer Velodyne LiDAR; acquisition of Israel SAIPS computer vision and machine learning technology company; and "virtual retina," Nirenberg Neuroscience technology company signed an exclusive license agreement Civil Maps 3D map technology and investment company, and so on.
Hyundai's relatively speaking more cautiously of the unmanned, but there were also tried. Inspired by DeepMind AlphaGo, Hwang's goal is to develop a AlphaGo system that can automatically navigate roads and provide intelligent service. Sources say, for automatic driving system of modern seemed to want to get Google involved. Currently Hyundai Motor may need to be yuehan·kelafuxike any of the potential cooperation with Google (John Krafcik) boost. Kelafuxike has served as the modern United States company's CEO, and joined Google in 2015, self-driving car project is responsible for the latter.
According to outside analysis, modern attitudes towards new cooperative is relatively close in recent years, it has avoided building a joint venture or Alliance to produce high cost and low production of electric cars and sport-utility vehicles. Now Hyundai is actively get rid of go it alone strategy, Google, Cisco and other tech companies and adopt a more open attitude, and to ensure access to adequate technical resources to catch up with other competitors.
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