Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Ji Hyun Lim

Sung Woo Kim

Sung Woo Park

Geum Dan Jin

Disclosed herein are a vehicle and a control method of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a communication device which communicates with a nearby vehicle in a predetermined range based on the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication method, and a controller which forms a network with the nearby vehicle and calculate representative speed of the network based on at least one of speed information of the vehicle or speed information of the nearby vehicle, and the controller calculates link speed of a road link based on the representative speed of the network.

Vehicle and control method thereof

A vehicle include: a communicator configured to collect information from first adjacent vehicles in a first range; a storage configured to store the information collected by the communicator; and a controller configured to generate first traffic information based on the collected information, select a first adjacent vehicle, which collects second traffic information about second adjacent vehicles in a second range, from the first adjacent vehicles, and generate driving route traffic information about a driving route based on the first traffic information and the second traffic information transmitted by the first adjacent vehicle.

A technique for updating vehicle information using a wireless access point connected to a telematics server is described. More specifically, the system includes a wireless communication unit configured to connect to the wireless access point through, e.g., Wi-Fi network, to automatically receive an update data container(s), when the update data container(s) regarding the vehicle information is present in the telematics server; a control unit configured to store the update data container(s) received through the wireless communication unit and control the vehicle information and one or more devices corresponding to the vehicle information; and an update unit configured to update the vehicle information by using the update data container(s).

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Ji Hyun Lim