Tripartite MOU Signed on the Afternoon of the 19th
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia are partnering with the government to develop mobility services based on connected technology. Their goal is to enhance convenience for commercial vehicle drivers and contribute to the establishment of a proper traffic safety culture through technological advancements.
On June 19, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority to develop and distribute connected DTG (Digital Tachograph) devices.
This agreement aims to develop a next-generation DTG by linking Hyundai Motor Company and Kia's connected car services with the Korea Transportation Safety Authority's driving record analysis system (eTAS). The objective is to increase the submission rate of commercial vehicle driving records and contribute to building a safer traffic environment.
A DTG is a device that automatically records driving information such as vehicle speed, mileage, and GPS signals in real time. The Road Traffic Act requires transportation business vehicles such as buses, cargo trucks, and children's school buses to be equipped with a DTG and to submit driving records. The Korea Transportation Safety Authority analyzes the submitted DTG driving records to improve risky driving behaviors and to support activities aimed at preventing traffic accidents.
However, until now, transportation businesses had to manually extract driving records from the DTG using a USB and submit them, or pay for a separate submission service, which caused inconvenience.
In particular, since October of last year, the obligation to submit DTG driving records has been expanded from route buses to include large cargo trucks with a payload of 25 tons or more and special vehicles with a total weight of 10 tons or more. As a result, the need for a more convenient method to submit driving records has increased.
Through this collaboration, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority plan to automate the storage, analysis, and submission of driving records using only the connected car service, without the need for separate devices or data extraction processes.
The next-generation connected DTG will utilize the server of the connected car service to generate driving records based on ECU (Electronic Control Unit) data collected in real time from the vehicle, and automatically submit them daily to the Korea Transportation Safety Authority's driving record analysis system.
Once this service is launched, vehicles subscribed to Hyundai Motor Company and Kia's connected car service will no longer need to install a physical DTG device, which currently costs up to 400,000 KRW per vehicle. In addition, the burden of manually submitting driving records using separate storage devices will be greatly reduced, which is expected to significantly increase the collection rate of commercial vehicle driving records.
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia plan to complete the development of the connected DTG this year and apply the service to new commercial vehicle models to be released in 2026.
Vice President Park stated, "We will continue to develop vehicle data-based services to maximize convenience for our commercial vehicle customers through ongoing technological exchanges, and we will fulfill our social responsibility for customer safety."
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