According to Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, Hyundai’s head of its self-driving division, Chang-Hyeong Song, has resigned after attempting to transition the company’s autonomous vehicle technology from a lidar-based system to a vision-only camera AI system. Song’s departure highlights the ongoing debate within the automotive AI industry regarding optimal sensor strategies for autonomous driving. This leadership change could signal challenges for Hyundai's AI roadmap and impact its competitiveness in the fast-evolving self-driving car market, where vision-based AI approaches are gaining traction due to cost savings and advancements in neural network capabilities (source: Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, December 4, 2025).