HNT "MOU with MDE and Sejong City for Autonomous Vehicle Development and Service Demonstration"

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] HNT announced on the 3rd that its subsidiary MDI signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sejong City on the 30th of last month for the development and service demonstration of autonomous vehicles.

Through this agreement, MDI will not only focus on demonstrating autonomous shuttle bus services together with Sejong City but also establish an information-sharing and organic cooperation system among participating organizations for safety verification. Sejong City explained that the agreement was made in mutual recognition of the importance of the future automobile industry development as understood by MDI. Additionally, MDI and Sejong City agreed to mutually cooperate for the collection and utilization of traffic-related data to enhance the safety of autonomous driving services, as well as to collaborate on the establishment and operation of a testbed for tracking the flow and movement of traffic-related objects.

MDI plans to extract information on vehicle movements, other moving objects, and pedestrians on the road using camera sensors and utilize this as backend data for autonomous driving. Park Hyung-min, Director of the Economic and Industrial Bureau of Sejong City, said, “MDI has made great efforts with Sejong City to provide autonomous driving services by continuously conducting demonstration drives using the BRT road and accumulating technology. Since the demonstration drives proceeded well without any significant accidents last year, we expect MDI and Sejong City to continue close cooperation this year as well, taking this agreement as an opportunity.”

Kim Deuk-hyung, CEO of MDI, stated, “Although MDI is conducting autonomous driving services, it has been very difficult due to the lack of places where demonstration drives can be conducted safely. We are grateful that Sejong City has provided a significant opportunity. Going forward, MDI will do its best to verify safety during autonomous driving services and ensure safe service provision through close cooperation with Sejong City.”

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