Halla-owned Mando has acquired an autonomous vehicle (AV) testing permit in the state of California.
Mando says it has became the second Korean-based company to receive an autonomous vehicle permit from California – after Samsung Electronics.
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Silicon Valley in California is a competitive arena for cutting-edge automobile technologies, with leading autonomous driving technology companies including Waymo, Baidu, Tesla, Intel, and Zoox conducting research, development, and test drive of their prototypes. In addition, the region has a high concentration of academic institutions including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and San Jose State University, which provide the best industry-university cooperation infrastructure in terms of advanced automobile technologies.
With the acquisition of autonomous driving permit in California, Mando says it expects that the autonomous driving platform “Hockey”, which the company is developing independently, will advance even more quickly. In addition, the company hopes that Mando Innovations Silicon Valley (MISV), a R&D center opened in Silicon Valley last year, will expand technological exchanges and collaborations with global companies in the area, in addition to finding and nurturing promising start-up companies to maximize the synergy effect in the field of autonomous driving technology.
Mando says the company’s objective in autonomous driving technology is to create a “level-4 (complete autonomous driving) platform” based on technologies independently developed by the company, which will enable Mando safety systems to be effectively integrated into autonomous vehicles.
Hockey, an autonomous vehicle featuring sensors independently developed by Mando, received an autonomous driving permit from the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in February 2017.
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