Naver, Seoul City, and Morai Collaborate on Virtual Autonomous Driving Challenge

Naver Cloud and Naver Labs announced on the 28th that they will hold the "1st Seoul Virtual Autonomous Driving Challenge," where students compete in autonomous driving technology within a digital twin environment, in collaboration with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and autonomous driving simulation company Morai.

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This competition was planned to expand the technological foundation in the autonomous driving field and provide students with experience in autonomous driving. It is the first contest conducted through cooperation among the three companies?Naver Cloud, Naver Labs, and Morai?as an extension of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on public sector autonomous driving simulation signed by the three parties in June last year.

Naver Cloud and Naver Labs will provide indoor and outdoor digital twin data created with their proprietary solution ALIKE and Naver Cloud Platform credits to enable stable simulation of various scenarios in this competition. Through this, participants can experience diverse simulations on an autonomous driving platform that replicates an environment identical to real-world conditions.

Hansang Young, Executive Director of Strategy & Planning at Naver Cloud, said, "For autonomous driving simulation, it is important to supply high-performance cloud infrastructure that guarantees stability and security. We plan to support large-scale scenario testing without bottlenecks, and we hope this will be an opportunity to expand the domestic cloud infrastructure base in the autonomous driving technology sector."

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