I feel like this is a political move between Hyundai and Google (favour by Google).

BD sat back on traditional programming/light ML techniques for ages whilst transformers went wild and it's only now that they're like "oh shit".

Hence the partnership with Google; BD lacks the capabilities otherwise. I bet their internal marketing departments did a bit of hand shaking to spin this piece as a favour for Hyundai/BD. Because from Google's (and our) perspectives - reading a gauge etc isn't that impressive and multimodal transformers solved that years ago, OpenCV many years before that also. But to BD it's impressive/a desperate grasp of "we swear we're using modern ML now! Yes our robot dances were sequenced and took dozens of takes but now we'll start doing it for real, we swear!"