Slower law regulation than technology…Outsider Korea in the global autonomous vehicle competition
[ Ye Jin Soo jinye@ ] | 2017-11-28 10:53:46
Korea has been pointed out that it lacks strategies to overcome the systemic and technological aspects despite countries around the world have entered a competition to accelerate the commercialization of autonomous vehicles.
In particular, the improvement of the laws and systems related to autonomous driving cars is still in its infancy stage. US, Germany and Japanese automakers are boldly investing in deep - run, which is worrying that technology gap with Korea, which is the late buyer, will be widened.
According to the related industry on November 27, Gyeonggi Province has been running a demonstration project of Zero Shuttle, a self-driving car in Pangyo Zero City since December. It is a matter of preparing legislation. The Korean government is trying to revise the relevant law so that the level 3 autonomous car in 2020 can run on the public road, but the tempo is already too late. In September, the United States passed the world`s first autonomous vehicle bill in the House of Commons. As a result, US automakers are able to operate self-driving cars without vehicle safety standards up to 100,000 units.
Meanwhile, Korea has established legal regulations for permitting trial operation of autonomous vehicles that were approved only in November last year. It also has legal and institutional limitations, such as requiring autonomous vehicles and service sections to be approved in advance. Some in the industry criticize that even if the autonomous driving technology is upgraded, it may be inferior to the global advanced companies because of the weak regulation and system.
A researcher of an autonomous driving vehicle said, "Even in the stage of piloting an autonomous driving car, if a human accident happens, it will be subject to criminal punishment." "I am afraid to test and it is also a limitation in research and development. Although the autonomous vehicle law has been established by the Automobile Damage Compensation Law, it is argued in the academic world that the law for the autonomous driving automobile should be hastened in order to solve the civil and criminal problems. Legislation on cyber security and personal information leakage problems at the time of autonomous operation is urgent.
On the other hand, technology gap with global leading industry is also increasing as the eco-system of autonomous vehicles is delayed. It is an industry evaluation that Korea lacks self-driving car start-up investment and builds platform to share big data because of closed culture unique to car maker. GM and Ford recently bought or invested more than USD 1 trillion in autonomous start-ups based on deep-running, respectively. According to the LG Economic Research Institute `s` Deep Learning Based Artificial Intelligent Autonomous Driving Technology Competition` report, more and more companies are implementing self-propelled driving technology using deep - running, mainly in the new US Silicon Valley for two years. Korea is disadvantageous in terms of securing driving data that is the basis of deep running. Tesla and others have already collected millions to hundreds of kilometers of running data.
Lee Seung-hoon, a researcher at LG Economic Research Institute, said, "If the autonomous mobile market is fully opened in the future, there will be a huge technological gap between companies that have secured data in advance and those who have advanced intelligence and those who are not. It will be very difficult."
By Ye Jin Soo jinye@
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In particular, the improvement of the laws and systems related to autonomous driving cars is still in its infancy stage. US, Germany and Japanese automakers are boldly investing in deep - run, which is worrying that technology gap with Korea, which is the late buyer, will be widened.
According to the related industry on November 27, Gyeonggi Province has been running a demonstration project of Zero Shuttle, a self-driving car in Pangyo Zero City since December. It is a matter of preparing legislation. The Korean government is trying to revise the relevant law so that the level 3 autonomous car in 2020 can run on the public road, but the tempo is already too late. In September, the United States passed the world`s first autonomous vehicle bill in the House of Commons. As a result, US automakers are able to operate self-driving cars without vehicle safety standards up to 100,000 units.
Meanwhile, Korea has established legal regulations for permitting trial operation of autonomous vehicles that were approved only in November last year. It also has legal and institutional limitations, such as requiring autonomous vehicles and service sections to be approved in advance. Some in the industry criticize that even if the autonomous driving technology is upgraded, it may be inferior to the global advanced companies because of the weak regulation and system.
A researcher of an autonomous driving vehicle said, "Even in the stage of piloting an autonomous driving car, if a human accident happens, it will be subject to criminal punishment." "I am afraid to test and it is also a limitation in research and development. Although the autonomous vehicle law has been established by the Automobile Damage Compensation Law, it is argued in the academic world that the law for the autonomous driving automobile should be hastened in order to solve the civil and criminal problems. Legislation on cyber security and personal information leakage problems at the time of autonomous operation is urgent.
On the other hand, technology gap with global leading industry is also increasing as the eco-system of autonomous vehicles is delayed. It is an industry evaluation that Korea lacks self-driving car start-up investment and builds platform to share big data because of closed culture unique to car maker. GM and Ford recently bought or invested more than USD 1 trillion in autonomous start-ups based on deep-running, respectively. According to the LG Economic Research Institute `s` Deep Learning Based Artificial Intelligent Autonomous Driving Technology Competition` report, more and more companies are implementing self-propelled driving technology using deep - running, mainly in the new US Silicon Valley for two years. Korea is disadvantageous in terms of securing driving data that is the basis of deep running. Tesla and others have already collected millions to hundreds of kilometers of running data.
Lee Seung-hoon, a researcher at LG Economic Research Institute, said, "If the autonomous mobile market is fully opened in the future, there will be a huge technological gap between companies that have secured data in advance and those who have advanced intelligence and those who are not. It will be very difficult."
By Ye Jin Soo jinye@