The Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) has built the Korea Autonomous Driving Assessment System (KADAS), which verifies the safety of autonomous vehicles and other future mobility, at a vehicle inspection center for the first time in the world. Full operations will begin in June.
TS held a "KADAS Dedicated Lane Completion and Preview Event" at its Sejong inspection center on Wednesday. About 20 domestic and international officials attended, including representatives from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Automobile Operations and Insurance Division and Autonomous Driving Policy Division, as well as system construction partners Dürr Korea and dSPACE Korea.
KADAS is a system that TS has been developing since 2020 in response to the commercialization of autonomous driving and the expanded supply of vehicles equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). It is designed to test five advanced safety features — Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Autonomous Emergency Braking System (AEBS), Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS), and Forward Collision Warning System (FCWS) — on a single inspection lane.
The system also performs existing vehicle inspection items such as headlight, braking force, speedometer, and emissions tests. Notably, it enables four-wheel dynamic inspection and steering, and the core feature is its ability to directly test ADAS performance by implementing a virtual driving environment through a Radar Target Simulator (RTS), without relying on communication with the vehicle's Electronic Control Unit (ECU).
A demonstration was also held at the event, in which a vehicle equipped with autonomous driving functions braked and steered on its own according to virtual traffic situations displayed on a front monitor.
"KADAS will become a key safety net that allows citizens using autonomous vehicles to drive on roads with peace of mind," TS Chairman Jeong Yong-sik said. "Using the Sejong inspection center as a stepping stone, we will lead the innovation of the advanced vehicle inspection paradigm."
