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Gwangju City News From the Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall website.
Gwangju will have the nation’s first autonomous, lowspeed special vehicles in the public service sector. On February 17, Gwangju City and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups held a demonstration launching ceremony for the Autonomous Low-Speed Special Vehicle Regulatory Free Zone Project in front of City Hall. This presentation consisted of a demonstration of lowspeed special vehicle public autonomous driving, and the collecting and sharing of public information data. Until now, a prerequisite for autonomous driving in Korea has been with a driver on board, but the Gwangju Free Regulatory Zone Project is characterized by autonomous driving without a human in the vehicle – the first in the country for this.
In December 2019, Gwangju was designated as a free regulatory zone in seven areas, including the Pyeongdong Industrial Complex, the Hanam-Jingok Industrial Complex, the Suwan district, Uchi Park, the Bitgreen Industrial Complex, and Songjeong Park, and signed an MOU with special zone operators in July last year. In the Gwangju Regulatory Free Zone, special regulations on temporary road permits, road driving permits, and access to urban parks are allowed for autonomous, lowspeed special vehicles to the extent that safety is ensured. Accordingly, Gwangju City received a temporary driving permit from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport on January 29, satisfying the performance test that applies to the above special cases to obtain temporary
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March 2021
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