Dr Taylor Lochrane, technical program manager for the USDOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), introduces the FHWA’s CARMA platform, which enables V2X communication for the research and development of cooperative driving automation.

Praveen Chandrasekar, regional senior product manager for autonomous driving at TomTom, explains how HD maps create an essential fallback for the vehicle’s sensors.

Dr Sandeep Sovani, global director, automotive industry at Ansys, explains why simulations of AVs require a methodical approach and how there’s more to AVs than just driverless cars, ahead of his presentation on this topic at the Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium.

Tony Gioutsos, director of portfolio development for autonomous at Siemens, talks us through a simulation-based verification and validation procedure of AVs that’s truly robust.

Ferenc Pintér, AiSim product manager at AImotive, outlines how the company approaches simulation for AVs and why it’s so crucial.

Heikki Laine, VP of product and marketing at Cognata, explains why manually tagged data is no longer sufficient for the effective training of AVs and suggests the solution.