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Hyundai Mobis Level 4 Autonomous Test Drives, Songdo–Yeongjongdo

Hyundai Mobis road-tested a Level 4 self-driving prototype on a 60km route spanning Songdo and Yeongjongdo, centered on Incheon Bridge, from April 2024 through mid-2025 — an unusually long urban, non-highway course for Korean autonomous-vehicle trials. About 20 partner firms, research institutes and universities took part, under an MOU with IFEZ and Incheon Technopark.

Completed 📅 2024–2025 🤖 Uses AI ✔ Editor-reviewed

✔ Reviewed by the 1001 Smart Cities editorial desk · 🔎 Last verified

🚲 MobilityAutonomous vehiclesSensors & IoT

🎓 Lesson

A separate, government-designated autonomous-vehicle test-operation district in Songdo (a 3.65km Songdo Central Park loop, distinct from this company-run R&D test) received the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's lowest grade in a 2026 evaluation, with no actual public autonomous-vehicle service operated there — a reminder that a private test drive and a live public service are not the same thing.

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Sources

↗ The Korea Herald — Hyundai Mobis Level 4 test drivesRoute (Songdo–Yeongjongdo via Incheon Bridge), ~20 partners, MOU with IFEZ and Incheon Technopark.
↗ Hyundai Motor Group — press releaseOfficial announcement of the test program.
↗ Etnews — test route and timelineApril 2024 start, H1 2025 planned end, route length.
↗ Joongboo — separate government AV test-district evaluationContext only: Incheon's government-run AV pilot-zone program received the lowest grade in 2026, kept separate from this entry to avoid conflating the two programs.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Hyundai Mobis Level 4 Autonomous Test Drives, Songdo–Yeongjongdo” — Incheon, South Korea. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/incheon-mobis-level4-av-test/ (last verified 2026-07-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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