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Motional is now conducting highway speed testing with our all-electric IONIQ 5 robotaxis. 

First production models of IONIQ 5 robotaxi will be manufactured at HMGICS and deployed as part of Motional’s commercial services in the U.S., starting in 2024.  Hyundai Motor Group and Motional announce all-electric IONIQ 5 robotaxi is one of the first SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles to be certified under the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. 

At Motional, we are pioneering the next evolution of AV technology by transitioning from traditional rule-based planning systems to an end-to-end machine learning (ML) powered motion planning system. This shift allows us to address some of the key limitations of legacy AV architectures and embrace a future where AVs rapidly learn, adapt, and improve with every mile driven.

Yi Wang, Senior Principal Engineer at Motional, does a deep dive into our approach for scaling our ML pipelines, and demonstrates three example design cases.

When developing autonomous vehicles, nothing is more important than safety. The safety of those driving, walking, or biking near our robotaxis is just as important as the safety of the person inside the vehicle. Learn how our vehicles respond to their environment in Chapter 7 of #DriverlessEd.

Chapter 6 of Motional's DriverlessEd series explores what it's like to ride in a robotaxi, and how Motional's team has designed it to feel familiar even to a first-time passenger.