Hyundai to Offer Automated Highway Driving This Year

Hyundai Motor Co.'s top-of-the-line Equus sedan will introduce a system later this year than can pilot the car within a highway lane automatically.

The company, which demonstrated the technology in Seoul on Tuesday, aims to move from partially automated driving systems this year to semi-autonomous systems in 2020 and fully self-driving cars by 2030.

Hyundai said in January it would spend about 81 trillion won ($73 million) on smart-car technologies over the next four years. The company emphasizes its focus will be on systems that can be "mass-produced for real drivers."