SEOUL, Jan. 26 (UPI) —<\/span> South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics is diversifying its business portfolio by tapping into the autonomous vehicle industry.<\/p>\n The conglomerate announced Monday that it would present its self-driving car, called the Omnipod, during a mobility fair in Seoul on Feb. 10.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n LG Electronics showed off the new car in a video during the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month in Las Vegas, but the firm has yet to showcase the real-life version.<\/p>\n The vehicle is equipped with consumer appliances tailor-made for in-car use, as well as a virtual personal assistant called Reah Keem, who also has plans to debut as a singer, the company said.<\/p>\n “The Omnipod converges our strengths in home appliances, displays and electronic components,” LG design center chief Lee Chul-bae said in a statement.<\/p>\n Many other IT companies around the world have pushed into autonomous driving, as demonstrated by Google’s Waymo and Intel’s Mobileye.<\/p>\n Conventional automakers, including General Motors and Hyundai Motor, are also trying to enter the market.<\/p>\n During the CES, GM presented a two-passenger self-driving concept car, dubbed InnerSpace, which came from its luxury brand Cadillac.<\/p>\n GM CEO Mary Barra said the automaker plans to offer a personal autonomous electric vehicle as soon as mid-decade.\n<\/p>\n “We don’t know much about LG Electronics’ technological edge in autonomous driving,” Daelim University automotive Professor Kim Pil-soo told UPI News Korea.<\/p>\n “Although the firm has competitiveness in related technologies, self-driving cars require many complicated solutions like software and lidar,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LG Electronics\u2019 self-driving vehicle is called the Omnipod. LG Electronics plans to present the new vehicle during a mobility show next month. Photo courtesy of LG Electronics SEOUL, Jan. 26 (UPI) — South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics is diversifying its business portfolio by tapping into the autonomous vehicle industry. The conglomerate announced Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nLG Electronics\u2019 self-driving vehicle is called the Omnipod. LG Electronics plans to present the new vehicle during a mobility show next month. Photo courtesy of LG Electronics<\/p>\n