Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year

jfruh writes While self-driving cars from Google and others remain in the prototype stage, Korean carmaker Hyundai intends to release a premium sedan called the Equus this year that includes self-driving features. While a car's ability to navigate complex urban environments on its own is still a ways off, the Equus will allow the driver to take their hands off the wheel and feet off the brakes during highway driving.

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my car is autonomous..

[ThatsDrDangerToYou]

It starts some days, if it feels like it.

this technology has been around a long time.

[nimbius]

Im quite familiar with Hyundai's semi-autonymous technology as they pioneered it 30 some years ago. The vehicle was capable of fully automatic shutdowns. Headlights, turn signals, brakes, you name it and this car would take care of it. At one point the vehicle, obviously sensing some mortal danger or impending disaster, pro-actively jetissoned the clutch into a stream of highway traffic in what I can only assume to this day saved my life from a bond villains clutches.