President Park Vows Support to Develop Driverless Cars in South Korea
South Korea due to its small size seems like an ideal location for the use of eco-friendly and driverless cars. It will be interesting to see how this technology develops over the next few years:
President Park Geun-hye pledged Friday to support the development of self-driving cars to ensure local carmakers won’t lag behind their global competitors.
Park said South Korea can compete with Google and other foreign rivals in developing driverless cars and eco-friendly vehicles, including electric cars, citing the technological prowess of local carmakers and information and technology companies.
South Korea is the world’s fifth-largest automobile producer and is home to Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate, Kia Motors Corp., the two flagship units of Hyundai Motor Group.
“I think our carmakers won’t lag behind global competition and (will instead) stay ahead of it,” Park said at Hyundai’s assembly plant in Asan, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul. [Yonhap]
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One drive indicates Korea already makes driverless cars…
…which appear to be programmed by the same Koreans who make Korean websites…
…disorganized, over-active, all over the place, incredibly annoying, in your way, violating standards, etc.
Korea can make excellent hardware… but Koreans are fantastically poor programmers…
…with the real problem being centered on things like consistancy, organization, and purpose.
CH, you’re trying to view Korea with your Western cultural baggage. And the weird thing is that, despite the apparent chaos, Seoul “works” better than NYC, London, or Beijing… I must admit I do prefer smaller, less-urban spaces…
I am kinda joking…
…Korean driving has greatly improved in the last 10 years.
Korean programming still sucks.
That is not a joke.
That does make for an interesting dystopian future WHEN they unleash the driver-less cars, buses, dump-trucks, and LPG delivery bikes…
I can hardly wait for driverless cars.
With a few hours of study and a few days of practice, I will be able to game the system and weave speedily through traffic while the robots are mashing on the brakes and dodging out of the way.
And, with some old microwave oven parts and a DIY trigatron, I should be able to EMP the bots into shutdown mode… assuming their error management is designed for maximum safety.
Yes, driverless cars are awesome.
I don’t know about Korean skills in all programming languages but I have heard about a few.
For instance:
Koreans are ranked low globally in the area of Python.
There are certain areas of Itaewon you can go if you want Fortran.
These same areas are known to oblige if you are looking for a C-Rimm job.
What have you guys heard?
The west C is less clear than the east C, which is commonly the C of Japan.
…and you are right…
Nothing worse than looking for JADE, Janus, JEAN, or Julia after having too much WINE and ending up with Bertrand, a Fortran with a Stacked Python, COBOLs, and a bad LISP, who is looking to charge you the value of a Ruby or Perl to bitbang your assembler.
I can always count on you, CH.
And to think my worst experience “up the hill” was avoiding the BMD Brigade…