Seoul National University's Future Mobility Technology Center (FMTC) held a presentation on the results of demonstration of pilot projects related to this year's last self-driving mobility service "Ma-jung."
Since July last year, Seoul National University has established and operated a Future Mobility Technology Center with a research building and an autonomous driving test site on a site of about 20,000 pyeong at Siheung Campus.
Ma-jung, a pilot project for autonomous driving mobility services, was launched by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to expand autonomous driving services to universal services. Over the past two years, it has been carrying out related projects with Automos and LG U+, including a consortium of Seoul National University's industry-academia-research team.
By introducing a technology that can detect numerous driving conditions and driving environments, verify safety of solutions, and judge and control them, it has developed an autonomous vehicle called 'Ma-jung'.
This was achieved comprehensively by combining test and evaluation methods, cybersecurity, communication technology, and services by converging various areas such as V2X infrastructure installation, vehicle driving control, and precision map construction.
CEO Automos said, "Before being put into the field, the vehicle is undergoing sufficient testing at FMTC."
The on-site service demonstration was conducted on seven self-driving cars operating on five routes in Baegot New Town in Siheung-si.
The autonomous cars operating are four "Ionic" cars manufactured last year, two "Ionic" cars manufactured this year, and one "E County" van.
Lida recognizes surrounding objects through cameras and can operate at speeds of up to 50 km depending on the road environment, and in child protection zones, driving can be manually switched through buttons.
It has a digital 3D map, so it is possible to change lanes to four lanes only when it has all lane data. With V2X communication-based infrastructure, most traffic lights can be recognized.
The service is equally available near Oido Station until December this year, and reservations can be made through the user boarding call app "Meeting." It runs from 13:00 to 17:00 during the day and from 20:30 to 00:30 at night. Passengers can also share the same screen as the safety person through the app.
Self-driving mobility services have operated autonomous driving modes more than 6,400 times so far, recording a cumulative distance of more than 13,000 km.
Since October last year, about 1,250 people have been on board, and 91% of the service surveys have praised service innovation and 93% are willing to reuse it.
According to the Korean version of the New Deal policy, we plan to build infrastructure such as precision road maps and C-ITS on major roads nationwide by 2025, said the head of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's transportation logistics office.
"Autonomous driving mobility provides services to areas where public transportation is scarce during commercialization, so we can expect not only the convenience of citizens but also the effect of resolving traffic blind spots," stressed Seoul National University Vice President. 

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