Vehicle software in Japan and South Korea, both UNECE contracting parties applying R155 and R156 on their own national schedules. Coverage follows the platform and vehicle-OS programs of Japanese and Korean manufacturers, their suppliers, and the semiconductor base underneath them.
Hyundai Motor Group's software and IT arm told Korea's disclosure system it would pay 114.6 billion won in six installments to 2031 for a 26 percent stake in a company not yet formed, which will build and operate GPU capacity and sell it as a service.
Stellantis Japan told the transport ministry it would reflash the body control module on 1,798 Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat vans after a control-program fault left the instrument cluster dead at engine start.
A release on an internal application hackathon disclosed the platforms the supplier builds vehicle software on: InfoLINK, an infotainment development platform it wrote for Android Automotive OS, IDELINK, a browser-based cloud development environment, and an on-device AI software development kit that runs without an external server.
The Japanese mapping company said it had entered Toshiba's open innovation program and begun a feasibility study on tying objects detected by roadside lidar to positions on its high-definition map.
UD Trucks told Japan's transport ministry that compatibility between a driver's-seat switch panel and the cab input/output module had not been verified sufficiently, and that it would reflash the module on every affected vehicle.
The Japanese trunk-haulage developer said September runs took a truck automatically between two expressway-side hubs and the toll gates serving them, and that a worker dispatched it from a phone.
MLIT and NASVA said the 2026 assessment year introduces a collision-mitigation braking scenario drawn from intersection accidents and an emergency-call tier covering rear-seat occupants, and published Suzuki's e Vitara as the first model scored under it.
The tender offer by BCJ-110 Inc. closed above its minimum, and eSOL said a further procedure would leave only the offeror and two non-tendering shareholders before the stock is delisted.
Mitsubishi Electric signed a share transfer agreement handing 50 percent of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility to a Hon Hai investment subsidiary, and both parties named electric powertrains, software and vehicle control as the capabilities the joint operation is meant to combine.
Nissan named the validation of centralized monitoring as a key aspect of this year's pilot, with Level 2 automated vehicles in both Kobe and Yokohama watched in real time from one control room in Yokohama.
South Korea's transport ministry said ten APEC member economies would send heads of delegation to a three-day Seoul forum whose policy session covers international standards and data governance.
The Korean perception-software company told the exchange that none of the 3.21 billion won is confirmed until Aptiv accepts each of five milestones, the fourth of which turns on hitting target KPIs within a compute budget.
The second year of an automated bus program in Ena City will test traffic-signal data feeding vehicle control, and whether a single monitoring center can cover several municipalities at lower cost.
Volvo Car Japan told the transport ministry that the telematics module's control program cannot reach the mobile network, so the automatic emergency call system fails the national standard, and filed remote distribution as an alternative to a dealer visit.
One recall replaces rear-view cameras whose software corrupts its own data at startup; the other rewrites a signal and actuation module's program and cuts out a wiring harness that an earlier recall had added.
LG Electronics disclosed six in-cabin systems for the Genesis GV90, among them a central communication unit that carries the car's remote-control and update path and has been certified to the highest automotive functional-safety level.
The filing says the control program was inadequately studied, and that if the motor's initial learning at start-up does not complete, output control fails, the system may stop and the vehicle may become undriveable.
LG Electronics said it combined the instrument cluster and infotainment system into one cockpit-domain controller for the New Trafic E-Tech Electric, which Renault built on its first mass-production software-defined vehicle architecture.
The transport ministry's research institute asked for partners to write service and requirements definitions for next-generation ITS services deployable in the 2030s, built on a new on-board unit improved from the ETC 2.0 device and required to work with a smartphone.
BMW Japan told the transport ministry that a head-unit program fault can leave the front and side camera images off the center display, and said the reflash would go out either over the air or through a dealer's diagnostic tester.
The two companies said they had begun co-creating a common software foundation for door, sensor and climate ECUs, combining Vector's MICROSAR IO with SCSK's QINeS-Lite and targeting a 50 to 80 percent cut in development effort.
Autoware's main developer said it had joined Arm Total Design for Physical AI, aiming to make the open-source driving stack available in ready-to-use configurations from Arm SoCs up to in-vehicle computers.
The transport ministry added drowsiness and distraction warning requirements under UN R182 and R183 to the Safety Regulations for Road Vehicles, applying to new types from September 2031.
Trend Micro's automotive security subsidiary said it had implemented xCarbon on Sony Semiconductor Solutions' IoT board computer and confirmed that CAN message anomaly detection worked there.
A Korean regulatory filing put a three-year minimum of 202.8 billion won on cloud capacity supplied to Hyundai Motor Group's autonomous-driving company, in a deal neither party announced.
The company published the software, simulator and design information for an autonomous racing kart to a public repository, after the package served as the common platform in this year's JSAE competition.
The listed vehicle-perception software company will ask shareholders on October 8 to re-elect its chief information security officer as an inside director and to grant 317,527 stock options to 69 employees.
A transport ministry release said its delegation had visited the Beijing Yizhuang demonstration zone and planned to draw on the operating framework and safety-management practice it saw there when shaping domestic automated-driving policy.
MOLIT, KATRI, KISA, the National Police Agency and Hyundai Motor ran a joint incident-response exercise built around malware distributed to vehicles from a compromised parts supplier's server.
The group said its data-collection-to-retraining pipeline is now in full operation, and set 2028 and 2029 production dates for two systems built on different silicon.
The Japanese company released a camera-only driving model as open source and said its code, training and in-vehicle optimization were carried out by an AI development loop rather than by engineers.
The transport ministry published the participants selected to run this financial year's demonstrations of the Autoflow Road, a dedicated lane for unmanned automated freight.
Japan's trade ministry picked the company for a large-scale demonstration grant to adapt its open-source driving stack to Saudi Arabian conditions for autonomous buses.
NTT Mobility and Aioi Nissay Dowa will compare an automated vehicle's own driving data against the insurer's telematics records to build safety-evaluation methods for automated services.
Nippon Seiki's disclosure and FPT's own release together set out a business alliance, a newly formed Polish entity and a transfer price withheld under a confidentiality agreement.
The transport ministry moved the September 1 application date to November 1 for vehicles already in production, citing earthquake damage to suppliers that left ordered cars unbuilt.
The two carmakers will share the high-performance and zone controllers of their next-generation vehicles, along with the operating system, middleware and vehicle control software running on them.
The Kobe-based in-vehicle software house fixed the date and the boards for a reorganization that gathers its infotainment, driver-assistance and connected-services work under a single platform business.
At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai gave dates for its software and autonomy programs, including a 100-megawatt training data centre due online from 2029.
The Japanese supplier put its battery passport software into commercial service ahead of the European Battery Regulation's February 2027 deadline, built on a blockchain record and an industry data model.
TIER IV joined the expanded Open Invention Network cross-licensing framework, extending its patent non-aggression cover to the Autoware open-source driving stack.
Hyundai Motor Group's Android Automotive-based cockpit platform reached a production flagship, alongside a cloud-side battery management system that flags anomalies to the driver.
The developer of the open-source Autoware stack said it is collaborating with Renesas to build an open computing platform spanning Level 2+ assistance through Level 4 automated driving.
A draft amendment would require manufacturers to supply the national inspection body with the encryption source needed to build diagnostic testers, free of charge, ten days before a new model goes on sale.
The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to build a development platform for production end-to-end autonomous driving models, with commercialization targeted around 2030.
The two companies released a joint technical white paper on August 7 setting out the data definitions and IT architecture requirements that carmakers and battery makers face under the EU Battery Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation.
The two carmakers are in late-stage talks to jointly develop an operating system for next-generation software-defined vehicles, according to The Japan Times.
The expanded alliance adds a MISRA-compliant AI coding assistant for vehicle software alongside Toyota's continued use of DriveOS and DRIVE AGX.