Hyundai Motor is all geared up to
roll out the new Equus
that will be semi-autonomous and offer you a hi-tech ride. The new luxury sedan
will incorporate self-driving
features that will allow it to stay in lane, slow down and speed up as required
to avoid collisions.
Apart
from the highway driving assistance, the South Korean car maker has also
announced traffic jam assistance functionality that is more suitable for
cities.
During
a media briefing, president and CEO of Hyundai Kim Choong-ho stated
that it was time for Hyundai
to take a leap in quality and to lead in the global race for
environment-efficient and high-tech cars, IT World notes in a report.
The new
Hyundai Equus will have
highway driving assistance along with self-driving features more suitable for
driving in the cities.
Although
there is no word on which models would have the self-driving features or
what the price of the new Equus would be, the
officials did point to a price range similar to that of the current models from
$61,500 to $68,700.
Despite
the extremely debatable issue of having driveless cars on the roads, tech
giants like Google and Apple are still stepping into the auto field with the
driverless car technology, catching the original car makers off grid who now
realise the need of adopting to newer technologies.
Kim
notes that it may take 7 to 10 years for self-driving cars to be
adopted by the masses in a legal fashion, but Hyundai's ultimate goal is to
commercialize completely autonomous vehicles and
to achieve that, it will further improvise on its car sensors and communication
technologies for further models. The company has already announced that it will
invest $1.8 billion in driverless technologies by 2018.
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