Waymo Chooses the Hyundai Ioniq 5 For New Robotaxi (carscoops.com) 36
Waymo has entered a "multi-year, strategic partnership" with Hyundai to integrate the company's autonomous driving system into the American-made Hyundai Ioniq 5. It's expected to join the Waymo One fleet after road tests starting in late 2025. Carscoops reports: Waymo and Geely joined forces in 2021 to introduce a mobility-focused Zeekr EV. The model was slated to be added to Waymo's fleet of autonomous vehicles and effectively replace their aging Jaguar I-Paces. While that was a solid plan a few years ago, the political climate has changed and China has emerged as America's boogeyman. Just last week, the Biden Administration proposed a new rule that could effectively ban all Chinese cars including models from Buick and Lincoln. [...]
Besides giving Waymo a 'safe' alternative to Zeekr, it sounds like the Ioniq 5 will eventually make up a bulk of the fleet. While that remains unconfirmed, the companies aim to produce the autonomous EVs in a "significant volume over multiple years." The firms also revealed the cars will be delivered with "autonomous-ready modifications like redundant hardware and power doors."
Besides giving Waymo a 'safe' alternative to Zeekr, it sounds like the Ioniq 5 will eventually make up a bulk of the fleet. While that remains unconfirmed, the companies aim to produce the autonomous EVs in a "significant volume over multiple years." The firms also revealed the cars will be delivered with "autonomous-ready modifications like redundant hardware and power doors."
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Are you some sort of MAGA parody account?
Re: Can't any of companies spell? (Score:5, Insightful)
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So true. It's ridiculous how seemingly none of those UK and US foreigners have a good grasp of their English language.
Just look at their books and movies.
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So true. It's ridiculous how seemingly none of those UK and US foreigners have a good grasp of their English language. Just look at their books and movies.
Or company/product names missing vowls.
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I don't think it's even foreign, just an attempt to make sure they can trademark it world-wide. Trademarking actual words is often a problem, e.g. the hassle Microsoft has had with Windows. Changing the spelling slightly is a common tactic.
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Hyundai is a Korean company, so it likely means something in Korean.
As for the others, it's the day of SEO. It's easier to search for "Ioniq" and get information about the car, whereas "Ionic" would just complicate the search. Especially if you want to look up information on Ionic Bonds, or Ionic solids witho
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Hyundai is a Korean company, so it likely means something in Korean.
According to the interwebs, it roughly translates to "modernity".
Course, my headcanon is still that Hyundai means "held together with little plastic clips that break if you look at them funny."
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That was true when they entered the western markets in the 90's, but they've come a long way since then.
Modern Hyundai and Kia cars are solid.
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That was true in the 80s when they entered the North American market. Especially with the Pony, which had the distinction of being one of the cheapest cars on the market. Of course, everyone has experience with them because of it, and most of them negative. I always recalled my mom's one never really starting when it rained. Or at least being very difficult to start.
To its credit,
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t's easier to search for "Ioniq" and get information about the car, whereas "Ionic" would just complicate the search
Also, it would be tough to trademark "Ionic." Kind of like The Sci-Fi Channel vs SyFy.
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Quick, name a letter followed by 2 numbers that is definitely not a current or former BWM model!
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sincerely,
BMW market chief
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I would have thought it is a playing of words between ion/ionic and iconic.
The rest of your post makes of course completely sense.
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Ioniq .. you mean Ionic?
We're still in the early part of the EV resurgence where companies seem to believe the cars need names that are cutesy puns on electricity-related things. Gasoline has been around long enough that thankfully we don't have anything named something like "Dinojuicer 3000".
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where companies seem to believe the cars need names that are cutesy puns on electricity-related things.
The Hyundai Ioniq has been around for 8 years [autoevolution.com]. It's not something new just for EVs. Only the model is new for electric and it's been around since 2021.
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"Ioniq" is a pun on "ionic" because batteries work by means of ion exchange. "Hyundai" is not a pun on something electricity-related - it's Korean for "modernity", and they've already adjusted the spelling for Westerners (the standard transliteration would be "Hyeondae").
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No it's not. Ioniq is a combination if "ion + unique" the former electricity related - ion flow. This is literally on Hyundai's website.
Re: Can't any of companies spell? (Score:1)
And, if anyone cares, in the USA it's pronounced "HUN-day" - rhymes with "Sunday". They had a commercial about it years ago, and their Montgomery, Alabama tour starts out with an introduction that tells you that.
It bugs me when I watch supposed-expert auto vloggers that haven't bothered to research it before making their videos.
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We're still in the early part of the EV resurgence where companies seem to believe the cars need names that are cutesy puns on electricity-related things.
The cutseyness has nothing to do with EVs. The majority of EVs on the road do not have cutesy names. Mine is called 2. That's it. The entire model name "2".
Mercedes EQS250 doesn't sound cute. Neither does BMW i8. Or Porsche Taycan, Audi A6, VW eGolf, Tesla Model Y, NIO ET7, Purgeot e3008, BYD HAN, Cupra VZ, Volvo EX90 or XC30, Kia EV3, or ... how about Kia Nitro ... do you think that EV has nitro injection? I could go on. I will. Mini Countryman, MG MG4, Lexus RZ300e, Toyota bZ4X (who win the most retarded
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Gasoline has been around long enough that thankfully we don't have anything named something like "Dinojuicer 3000".
That would actually be awesome.
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Waymo? You mean Way more?
No they mean a shortening of "WAY forward in MObility", it has nothing to do with more.
Ioniq .. you mean Ionic?
No they mean a portmanteau of "ion" and "unique". It has nothing to do with ionic.
And Hyundai? wtf is that.
The Korean word for "modernity", though I don't expect someone so backwards that you literally but the word "back" in your Slashdot user name to understand anything modern regardless of what language it's in.
How the fuck are you even supposed to say that word?
Like everyone says it, using your mouth and tongue to shape sound generated by your larynx.
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you can't write H-y-u and expect that's a coherently pronounceable word.
Well, I can. As everyone with a few brain cells can.
But I guess you belong to the crowd that intentionally mispronounce planets like Uranus in a childish way because the think it is funny?
What is difficult to pronounce in Hyundai???
And you do not even know a car company that is around since 30 or more years?
The Ioniq 5 is pretty big (Score:2)
I wonder how many Bird scooters would fit in it?
Yo dawg, I heard you like electric mobility as a service, so I put rentable EVs inside your rentable EVs so you can rent an EV with an app while you rent an EV with an app.
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Emerged?! China was an evil dictatorship way before 2021.
Your view has literally has zero to do with the text you quoted. Not only do you claim the word "Emerged" is incorrect because something happened earlier, your claim is literally the opposite of the text you quoted. It may be worth looking up the term boogeyman in the dictionary - it's virtually the opposite of the dictatorship and in this case the sentence isn't even talking about the government.
Re: China has not just fucking emerged (Score:2)
It's a funny way to think of one of the most popular governments on the planet, among those being governed, supposedly, according to surveys run by some western orgs.
Perhaps you've been lied to and manipulated. It's worth considering the possibility. Western governments and the western media do lie an awful lot.
Looking more and more (Score:2)
Like the Apple Car was supposed to be the ioniq 5
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And, if you want CarPlay (or Android Auto), it looks increasingly like you'll need to buy a foreign car - like the Ioniq 5/6.