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SINGAPORE: A joint venture between Korean automaker Hyundai and autonomous driving generation company Aptiv continues to recruit despite the COVID-19 slowdown and aims to climb at least 30 more until the end of the year.
On Tuesday, Hyundai and Aptiv announced that their $4 billion ($5.5 billion) joint venture, first announced in September of the year and completed in March, would be called Motional.
Speaking to the media through the video convention Wednesday, Motional’s executive leader, Karl Iagnemma, said the company, which has offices in Singapore and Seoul, in addition to 4 in the United States, intends to raise its global level by 45% this year to more than 1,000. .
In Singapore, it has hired more than 25 full-time workers since the joint venture was created in March and aims to create more than 30 jobs until the end of the year.
“I think we can go beyond that,” Iagnemma said, noting that the company has lately about two hundred workers in Singapore.
LinkedIn’s network shows that the company, called Hyundai-Aptiv Autonomous Driving Joint Venture, is recruiting for thirteen positions lately, adding clinical researchers and formula engineers.
Singapore has been a “fantastic place” to hire from a study and progression perspective, said Iagnemma, which also underscores the government’s strength for the progression of driverless technology.
“COVID has an effect on each and every country in the world, I perceive it has had an effect on Singapore, it is a difficult time for the country. I hope that our ability and willingness to rent in the country will allow us to make a contribution to Singapore’s recovery (and) recovery,” he added.
Aptiv was created in 2017 after car supplier Delphi bought the NuTonomy autonomous driving generation start-up, which had been testing its self-driving cars in the northern region of Singapore since 2016 and introduced what is believed to be the world’s first robot taxi ride test in the northern region of Singapore that year.
Since 2018, Aptiv has “safely insured” more than 100,000 robot advertising taxi trips in Las Vegas from a relationship with US-sharing travel operator Lyft, Iagnemma said.
When asked if Motional would launch an advertising service in Singapore, Iagnemma said the country met several criteria, such as “an important call for mobility services” and government support.
However, the company “does not commit to any corporation” with the locations where it will advertise or when it will, he said.
Motional now focuses on the progression of level four autonomous driving, he added, referring to the movement of autonomous cars in an environment.
“So we’re moving forward, you know, we’re going to use completely unmanned systems until the end of this year,” he said.
“Then, our driverless systems and generation will be available to some of our key partners for their own testing in 2022. So those are key dates for our company.”
Last year, the Land Transport Authority announced that the entire western region of Singapore, comprising more than 1,000 km of public roads, would be open to autonomous vehicle testing. In the past, this was limited to spaces such as the commercial district to the north and the island of Sentosa.