Samsung Launches Business Unit To Focus On Driverless Cars (koreatimes.co.kr)

An anonymous reader writes: South Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced a new focus on developing driverless cars and infotainment systems in its attempt to compete with domestic rival LG in the automobile arena. The chip and smartphone company has placed executive VP Park Jong Hwan at the front of the push. The project will combine efforts from various technology units, including battery maker Samsung SDI and software service provider branch Samsung SDS. The sector is an opportunity to make up for Samsung's declining television sales, and a slowing smartphone business which is struggling to compete with fresher, cheaper models in China and India.

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Re:Korea really needs this

[rsborg]

If any country needs driverless cars, it's Korea. If you think American roads are full of drunk drivers and aggressive douchebag drivers who ignore rules of the road, you haven't been to Korea.

And I say that as an ethnic Korean.

Whatever. Try south India - like in Chennai, you have any of the given on a road at any given time: cars, busses, mopeds, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, bikes, pedestrians crossing randomly, farm animals crossing randomly, and street peddlers aggressively soliciting motorists (esp. when traffic crawls).

Additionally, it's accepted that traffic rules are best treated as "suggestions" or "recommendations", it's perfectly commonplace to see motorcycles, cars, mopeds, and the like veer into oncoming traffic on the other side to pass (I've seen a bus do this occasionally also).

It amazes me every day that more people don't die in this manifestation of primal chaos.