{"id":1097,"date":"2016-01-06T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/after-scoring-autonomous-driving-license-kia-announces-new-self-driving-sub-brand\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:27:21","slug":"after-scoring-autonomous-driving-license-kia-announces-new-self-driving-sub-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/after-scoring-autonomous-driving-license-kia-announces-new-self-driving-sub-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"After scoring autonomous driving license, Kia announces new self-driving sub-brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kia-soul-ev-autonomous-vehicle_driving\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA2LzRmL0tpYVNvdWxFVkF1LjA3ZWNkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/72c055cc\/eb2\/Kia-Soul-EV-Autonomous-Vehicle_Driving.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=After+scoring+autonomous+driving+license%2C+Kia+announces+new+self-driving+sub-brand&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Fkia-drive-wise%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Fkia-drive-wise%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 If you thought the Tesla Model S would be the only EV driving itself around for the near future, well, you&#8217;d be wrong. Kia just got its license to drive fully autonomous Soul EVs on the public roads in Nevada. But that&#8217;s not the Korean carmaker&#8217;s only autonomous tech announcement made at the 2016 International CES Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/28\/bmw-gesture-2016-ces\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">BMW to show &#8216;AirTouch&#8217; 3D gesture control at 2016 CES<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kia will also be launching a new autonomous driving technology sub-brand called &#8220;DRIVE WISE&#8221; (I&#8217;m not yelling; it really is in caps). With DRIVE WISE, Kia aims to introduce semi-autonomous tech to its consumer cars by 2020 and fully autonomous models by 2030. Currently, the Tesla Model S is semi-autonomous and Tesla hasn&#8217;t officially announced when it plans to release autonomous EVs\u2014although CEO Elon Musk has said his company is just <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/25\/self-driving-tesla-2-years\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">two years away<\/a> from fully autonomous driving. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/05\/kia-drive-wise\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/transportation\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Transportation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ces\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ces<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kia<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/DVfAuYqoRRw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 If you thought the Tesla Model S would be the only EV driving itself around for the near future, well, you&#8217;d be wrong. Kia just got its license to drive fully autonomous Soul EVs on the public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/after-scoring-autonomous-driving-license-kia-announces-new-self-driving-sub-brand\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,215,644,1,37,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-ces","category-kia","category-other","category-tech","category-transportation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}