Motor Mouth: No hurry to go driverless
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A driver behind the wheel of a Didi Chuxing autonomous taxi during a test drive in Shanghai, on July 22, 2020.
PHOTO: AFP
SINGAPORE - "Today, it's beyond the state-of-the-art and driverless technology to develop Level 5. This is not to say it will never happen. But today, a more realistic goal is to focus on Level 4."
That refreshingly honest assessment was made by Mr Karl Iagnemma, chief executive of Motional - a newly rebranded joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Aptiv (previously known as Nutonomy) - in August.
