Although Hyundai doesn’t expect to commercialize fully autonomous vehicles until 2030, that’s not stopping the automaker from bringing their self-driving cars on the roads. Just last week, the South Korean carmaker had a fleet of autonomous hydrogen fuel cell cars drive themselves 118 miles from Seoul to the Winter Olympics’ home venue of Pyeongchang. This was the longest any self-driving vehicle has traveled at highway speeds.
Hyundai’s fuel-cell cars just drove a record 118 miles without a driver
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