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Headline : A Hyundai-backed startup is delaying its driverless taxi ambitions

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Hyundai Motor Co. and Aptivโ€™s joint self-driving car joint venture is pausing its operations, delaying commercialization plans, and laying off employees, according to the startupโ€™s CEO.

The decision comes a week after Hyundai agreed to spend $900 million to keep the startup, Motional, afloat in return for a larger stake. After the purchase, the South Korean automaker will own about 85% of the venture. Aptiv and Hyundai each invested $2 billion investment to launch the startup in March 2020.

Motional CEO Karl Iagnemma on Tuesday said in a blog post that despite the startupโ€™s success, large-scale deployment of driverless cars โ€œwill not happen overnight.โ€

Motional has introduced a Level 4 autonomous vehicle, the all-electric Ioniq 5 robotaxi, and completed more than 100,000 autonomous rides in Las Vegas and โ€œthousandsโ€ of food deliveries in Los Angeles through its partnerships with Uber and Lyft. For comparison, Teslaโ€™s Full Self-Driving and Autopilot technology is ranked as a Level 2 self-driving system, according to SAE Internationalโ€™s standards.

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