South Korea self-driving professor

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A decade before the race to build self-driving cars turned into a multibillion-dollar competition between tech giants such as Tesla and Google, a South Korean professor created autonomous and test-drive cars across the country - for its research. Only him To send to scrapHan Min Hong, now 79, successfully tested a self-driving car on the streets of Seoul in 1993, a decade before Tesla was even founded. Two years later, it drove 300 kilometers (185 miles) from the capital to Busan's southern port on South Korea's busiest expressways.


Images from the ทดลอง ปั่น สล็อต ฟรี period showed the car was driving down a highway with no one behind the wheel. A 386 chip-based desktop computer with a monitor and keyboard rests on the passenger seat. Han sat at the back, waved his hand at the camera.It felt extraordinary," said the lovely inventor.The workload is very heavy" but he and his team "They are very passionate because this is something that other people have not done yet.At that time, South Korea focused on heavy industries such as steel and shipbuilding, while Koreans were not familiar with mobile phones.


The country has not become a technological powerhouse today and continues to seek imitation rather than innovation. On one occasion Han said: "Why develop new technology when you can always pay for it?Han's project was seen as dangerous. Once he was asked how much life insurance was paid, and did his wife know that "Your crazy activities"?But Han believed in the safety of cars so much that he almost did not wear a seat belt and never took out life insurance. Still, much investment potential could not be seen.The government eventually cut funding for his research at Korea University.


Now Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla is now a $ 600 billion company, while Han's Chumdancha is a small company in Yongin, south of Seoul, where he and another employee are still developing. Specialist alert system for autonomous vehicles.Musk is a person who "Great and outstanding," Han said. "He has his own unwavering vision based on what other people are doing, and that's incredible." But Han's invention could pave the way for South Korea to rule the industry, he added with regret.Raj Rajkumar, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute of Robotics, who reviewed the 1990 AFP footage, said it



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Korea University said that Han was The "pioneer and hero of the global artificial intelligence world" is known for developing the country's first automotive navigation system and a small helicopter that is seen as a precursor to modern-day drones.He was seen as a genius in the South ahead of his time, the 1990s image has had more than 1.5 million views since it was posted to YouTube in February.Self-driving vehicles are a major technology battleground for automakers today, with tech giants like Google Alphabet spending billions on a market that was supposed to fuel car sales.


Tesla said last year it was "very close" to achieving Level 5 autonomous driving technology, indicating total autonomy.But Han insists that the current American company's offerings are comparable to his work in 1990.As Tesla is regarded as the best car in the world, if given the opportunity, I would like to compare our technology with their cars.He introduced the challenge on the Bugak Skyway, a narrow, winding road that runs through the mountains in northern Seoul.Of course, Tesla invests a lot of money into testing, so it might be a lot better when it comes to complexity," he told AFP, "but there shouldn't be much difference when it comes to basic functionality.