The Israeli company Autotalks from Kfar Netter is making history in Seoul. The local startup, which specializes in automotive and vehicle-to-vehicle and environmental communications (V2X), will provide the Korean capital with safety technologies for Class 4 autonomous public transportation, it recently announced. The significant advantage of this method lies in the sharing of data and values between vehicles and electronic infrastructure such as cameras and junction control in order to reduce the risk space on roads and prevent accidents by early warning.
The project, according to the developers, is one of the largest in its field in the world’s major cities, and as part of it, Autotox has installed an integrated V2X system with smart driving assistants (ADAS) on 2,000 buses in the Sangam area, near Seoul under the Seoul City C-ITS project. The aim is on the one hand to give passengers a sense of security with protection systems whose role is to intervene in an emergency and at the same time provide pedestrians with a protection line, as Autotox sensors and controls detect dangerous proximity to people, driving in schools, proximity to older populations Weather and more.
“Autotox congratulates the city of Seoul and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure on promoting the vision of a smart and safe city,” said Ram Shalom, VP of Business Development and Marketing at Autotalks in Asia-Pacific. The city sets a new standard and other gates will want to implement. “Seoul’s move will be seen as changing the rules of the game by other cities that are struggling to cope with technological decisions and allow their hesitation to delay future mobility.”
The Israeli company, founded in 2008, employs 100 people in several different parts of the world, and has so far raised $ 150 million for its activities in the fields of communications and safety in the auto-tech industry, as well as collaborating with major companies around the world including Foxconn (which recently signed a cooperation agreement with Stalantis). In the previous year, it increased the number of car manufacturers in front of it to six and it will continue to produce the V2X chips for development for various factors in the industry.