Modeling the Road Ahead for AVs

Detailed virtual environments are vital to developing, testing and validating autonomous systems.

The next million miles of autonomous-vehicle test roadways are about to deploy from a start-up company's virtual-world toolbox.

“For each mile of real-world autonomous-vehicle testing, developers will test hundreds of thousands of simulated driving miles,” declared Alex Goldberg, CTO of VectorZero, a Carlsbad, California, start-up company whose RoadRunner software product debuted in July 2018. The next release is nearing deployment.