Genesis has downgraded the advanced safety assistance technology suite available to a trio of its vehicles. Its most high-tech system, Highway Drive-Assist II (HDA II), will no longer be available as an option on the GV70, and won’t come standard on the G80 or the GV80.
The move has been made as a compromise, as the South Korean automaker wrestles with supply chain issues. That has led to a shortage of semiconductor chips, reports Edmunds, pushing Genesis to temporarily pull the features in order to get vehicles out to customers in a timely manner.
All of the vehicles listed will still come with the standard Highway Drive Assist system, which features adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, and automatic lane centering. The more advanced HDA II, though, was a selling point for the G80 and the GV80, on which it came as standard.
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In addition to the HDA system’s features, HDA II adds machine learning, which helps the adaptive cruise control learn the owner’s driving style and operate more like it. It also adds automatic lane changing, which allows the vehicles to change lanes while only requiring the driver to use the signal.
Although only Genesis has indicated that the supply chain issues will affect its vehicles so far, Hyundai and Kia also offer HDA II on their most advanced electric vehicles, the Ioniq 5 and the EV6. Hyundai confirmed to Carscoops that the Ioniq 5 will continue to offer HDA II and we are awaiting confirmation with regards to the Kia EV6.
Genesis vehicles that would have otherwise made use of the HDA II system will be noted as such by the addition of the PX package on the window sticker. This “package” will carry with it a $200 discount.
“We look forward to bringing these enhancements back to the Genesis lineup as soon as possible,” a Genesis spokesperson told Edmunds.
