Testing the Driverless Car

Testing driverless cars on the open road brings numerous challenges. Since open-road testing occurs with a human driver, along with pedestrians and other cars, it must not put any of those people or property at risk. This item describes efforts to perform sophisticated simulation with a driver in the loop before installing the necessary automation hardware and software in an actual vehicle. Higher-quality simulator graphics can respond to the vehicle's requested actions up to one millisecond faster than previous engineering systems can - up to an entire car length at highway speeds - allowing a more precise evaluation of the car's responses in emergency situations.

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