Hyundai Says Energy Consumption Required By Autonomous Systems Is Hindering Their EV Efforts

The march toward fully autonomous vehicles is fraught with roadblocks, perhaps one of the most significant being the high electrical consumption of AVs.

For this reason, a top Hyundai AV official says self-drivers likely will be coming later than sooner, and they won’t be full battery-electric vehicles as many presume.

“We are developing the fully autonomous technology, the driverless car – (SAE) Level 4 and Level 5, but as of now the power consumption is really huge, it can go up to 1 kW or 2 kW, so it could dramatically decrease the driving range of EVs,” Woongjung Jang, director-advanced driver assist systems for Hyundai, says here at a recent Hyundai media event.

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vdiv - 11/27/2017 7:06:44 PM

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Well, yeah, if they use vacuum tubes in their processors and code written by orangutans...

Even if it was 1 or 2 kW (3 horsepower) it will not reduce the range dramatically or even noticeably. Sounds like Hyundai is looking for excuses.

MDarringer - 11/27/2017 9:50:53 PM

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Sounds like racist bigotry on your part to me.

Hauerg - 11/28/2017 7:01:33 AM

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Sounds like MD has no idea what „racist“ means.

F*****, feeding the troll, again.

MDarringer - 11/28/2017 8:38:13 AM

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I know exactly what racist means. Vdiv called Koreans "orangutans". Pretty straightforward racial slur. Then fold in the "vacuum tubes" comment and he's calling Koreans unintelligent. @Hauerg and you are a bully for trying to put me down as you ostensibly defend a racist.

Hauerg - 11/28/2017 1:49:02 PM

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@ MD again.
Not racist.
All he was writing was: the bad performance they are claiming can only be achieved with shitty hardware and shitty software.

He MIGHT be racist, I do not know him, but those lines are not racist.

And YOU feeling billied? ROFL

Hauerg - 11/28/2017 6:59:46 AM

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WTF?

I call this complete BS: this would be equivalent to using the max power of 3to 4 of the upcoming iMac Pros, 18 cores each.

Again: WTF?

SanJoseDriver - 11/29/2017 3:04:26 AM

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Tesla Autopilot 2.5 uses 150 watts, sounds like Hyundai has a very inefficient system. Nvidia's next gen platform for level 5 autonomy is 40x more powerful than that and uses even less energy. Sounds like they are just buying time.