Hyundai Mobis, Qualcomm to develop controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles

LAS VEGAS — Hyundai Mobis will work together with Qualcomm to develop a controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles.

Executives of the two companies are planning to have a meeting during the CES 2023 trade show, which opened in Las Vegas on Thursday, to further discuss more strategies. The show runs until Jan. 8.

Under the cooperation, Mobis will develop an integrated autonomous driving controller scaling up to level 3 utilizing the San Diego-based company’s chips.

An integrated controller is an essential system for realizing Level 3 autonomous technology as it enables the efficient and easy process of adding new features and improving performance.

The development will be completed in the first half of the year at the earliest, Mobis said.

The cooperation comes as the auto parts maker has been redesigning its direction of future growth as a company specializing in mobility.

“To mark our new step forward, we are redefining our company’s name Mobis. It now stands for Mobility Beyond Integrated Solution,” Hyundai Mobis President Cho Sung-hwan said during a media showcase Thursday.

“As a mobility platform provider, we want to modularize elemental technologies in various fields and provide integrated solutions that satisfy customer needs.”

Mobis also demonstrated a concept purpose-built vehicle (PBV) during CES 2023 Thursday, which the company believes to be what future mobility looks like.

The vehicle, which the company calls M.Vision TO, is an autonomous vehicle that extends freedom of movement including crab driving and zero-turn with 90 degrees rotating wheel.

Hyundai Mobis has been focusing to strengthen close cooperative relationships with various foreign companies in a bid to secure new technologies for future mobility.

It recently teamed up with Ottopia, an Israeli start-up, to jointly develop a teleoperation system for level 4 autonomous vehicles or higher.

BY SARAH CHEA [chea.sarah@joongang.co.kr]