Foretellix’s verification and validation solution will help to ensure the safety of the Nuro Driver™ through the use of large-scale automated testing.

Sunnyvale, CA., January 4, 2023 – Nuro, a leading autonomous vehicle company, and Foretellix, the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation (V&V) solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the safe and large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles for last-mile delivery.

Foretellix and Nuro will collaborate to develop an extended library of scenarios for urban environments. This will enable automated virtual testing of the Nuro Driver™ using Foretellix’s Foretify™ platform and Nuro’s advanced simulator. The Nuro Driver™ is an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and custom-built sense and compute hardware. The Foretify safety-driven V&V platform provides a unified V&V flow that combines real-world test drives and hyper-scale simulation.

“Nuro takes safety extremely seriously. Foretellix’s safety-driven V&V technology supports that commitment while accelerating our development and path to commercialization.” Said Sreeja Roy Singh, Head of Systems Engineering at Nuro. “Foretellix’s leadership in using OpenSCENARIO 2.0 for abstract scenario description and testing automation will play a critical role in Nuro’s development process. It allows us to make our research and development more efficient, while ensuring our technology operates safely in real-world scenarios”.

The goal of this partnership is to reduce Nuro’s R&D costs, while significantly improving the quality and safety of the Nuro Driver^TM. These benefits are achieved through the automatic generation of millions of relevant and meaningful test scenarios by Foretellix’s constrained-random test generator. This ensures proper Operational Design Domain (ODD) coverage and uncovers edge cases that might impose safety risks.

The Foretellix solution accelerates and elevates Nuro’s development and issue resolution process. It can automatically analyze driving logs collected by Nuro test vehicles and replay multiple variations in virtual testing. It systematically measures testing coverage, performance metrics, and safety checks across both virtual testing and physical drives. It also provides Nuro’s engineers with tools for large-scale issue triage that help pinpoint the root cause of problems more quickly and with less effort.

“We are excited to partner with Nuro,” said Ziv Binyamini, Foretellix Co-founder and CEO. “We share Nuro’s passion and vision for safe autonomy that improves daily life for millions of people. We are looking forward to working with Nuro and helping them deliver on their vision faster and more efficiently.”

This partnership underscores Nuro’s deep commitment to safely commercializing Level-4 autonomous technology at scale across commercial and consumer applications.

About Nuro

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a leading autonomous technology company with vehicles on road today in California and Texas. The company’s core technology is the Nuro Driver^TM, an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and custom-built sense and compute hardware. The first commercial application of the Nuro Driver^TM is autonomous goods delivery with our custom, electric, zero-occupant vehicles in partnership with some of the most recognized brands in the world including Uber and FedEx. For more information, visit nuro.ai.

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation solutions for Automated Driving Systems and ADAS. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking, and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

 

Temasek and Isuzu join Woven Capital and NVIDIA in a major round led by 83North

Tel-Aviv, Israel and Sunnyvale, CA., Dec 5, 2023  – Foretellix, the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation (V&V) solutions for Automated Driving Systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), has announced today that it closed a Series C funding round of $85 million, bringing its total raised capital to $135 million. The funding round was led by 83North. The new investors Temasek and Isuzu joined Woven Capital – the growth fund of Toyota – NVIDIA, and Artofin, which participated in the first closing earlier this year. All major existing shareholders participated, including MoreTech, Nationwide, Volvo Group VC, Jump Capital, Next Gear Ventures, and OurCrowd. Foretellix will use the funding to accelerate the development of its expanding product portfolio and address the growing worldwide demand for its solutions.

“We are thrilled to have Temasek and Isuzu join as investors,” said Ziv Binyamini, Foretellix CEO and Co-Founder. “Foretellix is driving a transformative leap forward in V&V technology and methodology. Our solutions address the largest barriers to safe large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles while dramatically reducing development costs. We are committed to continue our partnerships with leading autonomy developers and supporting our customers. This funding round will secure our long-term sustained growth. It will help extend our product line for real-world and synthetic driving scenarios and the development of new AI capabilities.”

“Isuzu believes that safety verification and validation is essential for OEMs to responsibly develop safe autonomous vehicles,” said Mr. Hiroshi Sato, Vice President of Isuzu’s Engineering Division. “Foretellix’s advanced technology in automated scalable scenario generation, and their leadership position in the OpenSCENARIO® 2.0 standard, are key assets for Isuzu. Collaborating with Foretellix’s senior management and engineers is a great opportunity, and a major advantage, for Isuzu’s autonomous vehicle development.”

Foretify™, Foretellix’s Safety-Driven V&V Platform, is used by Automotive, Trucking, and Mining customers worldwide to accelerate the development and deployment of their Automated Driving Systems. The platform provides a unified V&V flow that combines real-world test drives and virtual simulation in one platform. It helps development, testing, and safety engineers at OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and Autonomous Vehicle providers to better collaborate and boost their efficiency throughout their AV and ADAS projects cycle.

Foretellix led the ASAM OpenSCENARIO^® 2.0 (OSC2.0) standard development, revolutionizing how safety is developed and tested in Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix contributed key syntax and concepts to ASAM, and it continues to lead standard enhancements. The Foretify platform is the industry’s first solution offering native OSC2.0 support.

For more information about Foretellix, visit www.foretellix.com, or email info@foretellix.com

 

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation solutions for Automated Driving Systems and ADAS. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking, and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com/

New strategic investors include Woven Capital and NVIDIA

Tel-Aviv, Israel and Sunnyvale, CA., May 2, 2023 – Foretellix, the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation solutions for Automated Driving Systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), announced today it has raised $43 million in the first closing of its Series C funding round led by 83North, bringing its total raised capital to over $93 million. Woven Capital, the growth fund of Toyota, and NVIDIA joined the financing round, along with Artofin VC. All major existing shareholders participated, including MoreTech, Nationwide, Volvo Group VC, and Jump Capital. Foretellix will use the funding to accelerate development of its expanding product portfolio and fuel expansion across new geographies.

“We are thrilled to have Woven by Toyota and NVIDIA as strategic partners,” said Ziv Binyamini, Foretellix CEO and Co-Founder. “Foretellix is addressing the largest barrier for safe large-scale deployment of automated driving systems. The new funding will help us to address the growing demand for our solutions, extend our worldwide reach, and accelerate our vision for achieving safe autonomy.”

“At Woven by Toyota, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s safest, most intelligent, and human-centric mobility solutions,” said George Kellerman, Vice President, Investments and Acquisitions for Woven by Toyota, and Managing Director of Woven Capital. “Verification and validation technology plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and performance of innovative autonomous systems that are accelerating the future of mobility. Foretellix is a leading player in this space, and we are excited to work together to advance automated driving technologies.”

Foretellix’s Safety-Driven Verification & Validation (SDV) Platform – Foretify™ is used by Automotive, Trucking, and Mining customers, including Volvo Group, Torc – a Daimler Truck subsidiary, and many others, to accelerate the development and deployment of their Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix established partnerships with major simulation companies, including IPG, NVIDIA, dSPACE, VIRES, AI Motive, and Cognata, providing its customers with a comprehensive verification and validation (V&V) solution.

The Foretify platform is used by engineers at OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) stack providers throughout the AV/ADAS development cycle. The platform consists of multiple products:

• Foretify Core™ – Hyperscale virtual test generation and execution engine based on Foretellix’s state-of-the-art constrained random test generator, pre-integrated with industry-leading simulators.
• Foretify Developer™ – Scenario and test development and debug tool, including a powerful visualizer that helps engineers to view and debug single-run test results, including KPIs, checks, and coverage.
• Foretify Manager™ – V&V management and big data analytics tool that enables engineers to create and execute metric-based V&V plans, triage, and analyze test results and coverage across virtual simulation and real-world driving.
• Foretify LogIQ™ – Automated drive log analysis tool that identifies scenarios of interest and breaks them down into their sequential building blocks, detects edge cases and anomalies, extracts KPIs and coverage, and provides a powerful log visualization tool.
• Foretify V-Suite™ – Ready-to-use V&V libraries, including scenarios, verification plans, maps, coverage metrics, and KPIs, that help accelerate customers’ projects. V-Suites can automatically generate millions of relevant concrete scenarios and easily adapt to customers’ ODD and system requirements.

Foretellix led the ASAM OpenSCENARIO^® 2.0 (OSC2.0) standard development revolutionizing how safety is developed and tested in Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix contributed key syntax and concepts to ASAM, and it continues to lead further enhancements of the standard. The Foretify platform is the industry’s first solution offering native OSC2.0 support.

For more information about Foretellix, visit www.foretellix.com, or email info@foretellix.com

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation solutions for Automated Driving Systems and ADAS. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking, and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

Media Contacts:

Scott Fosgard | scott@fosgardpr.com | +1 734-272-7440

 

A unified Verification & Validation flow bridging real-world driving data with simulation

Data collection in real-world driving is expensive but nevertheless critical for validating the quality and safety of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and ADAS. We are happy to announce today, as part of Foretellix’s Safety-Driven Verification and Validation (SDV) vision, the release of Foretify LogIQ – a powerful tool for maximizing the utilization of drive log data.  

LogIQ identifies scenarios of interest and breaks them down to their sequential building blocks, detects edge cases and anomalies, extracts KPIs and coverage, and provides a powerful log visualization tool. The Foretify platform with LogIQ provides a unified Verification and Validation (V&V) flow that combines real-world test drives and virtual simulation in one platform. 

Scenario-based drive log analysis 

LogIQ performs a deep analysis of log data to identify scenarios of interest using a comprehensive library of standard scenario definitions provided by Foretellix or using custom scenarios provided by the user. It extracts parameters, calculates KPIs and checks, and collects coverage information in a scenario-specific context. These unique capabilities enable multiple use cases:  

• Recreate concrete and abstract real-world scenarios in simulation for improved debugging and faster turn-around time for bug fixes.
• Simulate many variations of concrete scenarios from drive logs using the Foretify constrained-random test generator.
• Analyze coverage, KPIs, and pass/fail checks of real-world driving logs at scale using Foretify Manager and correlate them to simulation results. 
• Use extracted real-world driving parameters value and distribution to calibrate and optimize simulation testing. 

Anomaly Detection 

In addition to the scenario context-aware analysis capabilities, LogIQ also includes a powerful AI-based anomaly detection engine that can identify anomalies not associated with specific scenarios. This capability can help development teams to detect and debug rare, unexpected behavior of objects, actors, and the System Under Test (SUT) and identify missing KPIs and checks for future testing. 

Log Visualizer  

LogIQ includes a powerful log visualizer that enables engineers to quickly identify, review and debug sequential scenarios and anomalous events in drive logs. It breaks down complex scenarios to their building blocks using a hierarchical representation and displays pass/fail checks and customizable KPI waveforms to help pinpoint the exact conditions of a problem. 

An integral part of the Foretify Platform 

LogIQ is seamlessly integrated with the Foretify Safety-Driven V&V (SDV) Platform to deliver a comprehensive V&V flow that combines real-world test drives and virtual simulation in one platform, using common tools and following Foretellix’s proven SDV methodology. 

Example use case: 

Figure 1 shows a 5-minute drive log analyzed by Foretify LogIQ. It identified two cut-in scenarios, one cut-out scenario, and one anomaly. LogIQ extracted all actors’ speed and Time-To-Collision (TTC) as KPIs and calculated a minimum TTC check for all scenarios. In one of the cut-in scenarios, a minimum TTC check was flagged by LogIQ as failed. In addition, a missing lane-mark anomaly was detected, and the speed of all actors around this event was extracted and presented. 

For more information about LogIQ and the Foretify platform or to request a demo, please contact us at info@foretellix.com  

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of verification and validation solutions for ADAS and Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

Torc Robotics is working with Foretellix, the leader in autonomous vehicles verification & validation, to enable the safe deployment of autonomous trucks

Tel Aviv, Israel – January 3^rd, 2023 – Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Foretellix, the leading provider of safety-driven verification and validation (V&V) solutions for automated driving systems (ADS). The collaboration delivers to Torc the best-in-class virtual verification & validation solution, capable of testing the millions of driving scenarios required to ensure the safe deployment of Level-4 autonomous trucks.

Torc Robotics is leading Daimler Truck’s effort to develop and commercialize Level-4 autonomous trucking solutions. Its commitment to quality and safety has led to its collaboration with Foretellix.

At the center of the joint solution is Foretellix’s Safety Driven V&V platform that allows development, V&V, and safety teams to specify scenarios easily, generates massive scale testing, and analyzes the results. For more info on Foretellix’s Safety Driven V&V platform and methodology, please read this link.

“Our technology is designed with safety as the first priority,” said Axel Gern, Torc SVP of engineering and managing director of Torc EU. “Our collaboration with Foretellix is in line with Torc’s safety mission. It provides Torc with V&V tools to add to our current toolset, based on industry standards, to conduct the massive scale testing and validation we need to ensure the safety of our systems”.

“We are very proud to partner with Torc Robotics,” says Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix. “In the past two years, our teams have been working together, sharing knowledge and expertise to create the best-in-class solution to support Torc Robotics’ goals. We look forward to continuing our joint mission to deploy safe Level-4 autonomous trucking at scale”.

The Foretellix V&V platform, Foretify™, uses the ASAM OpenSCENARIO® 2.0 standard to describe the infinite possible driving scenarios and define verification and validation goals. Using Foretellix’s L4 highway trucking V-Suites – a V&V package of scenarios, test plans, maps, and KPIs, Torc’s development teams can rapidly start their testing program. Foretify uses these scenarios to generate a multitude of test scenarios in virtual simulation optimized to represent real-world conditions and uncover unknown edge cases. Foretify continuously measures and analyzes test results and validation completeness and helps development teams uncover bugs earlier in the development cycle. Foretify dramatically reduces development costs, boosts development teams’ productivity, and improves time to market while ensuring safety.

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of verification and validation solutions for ADAS and Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

Media Contacts:

Scott Fosgard | scott@fosgardpr.com | +1 734-272-7440

 

A novel verification & validation technology and methodology unlocks safety at scale and bridges the gap between safety engineering and automated verification and validation

Foretellix, the leading provider of verification and validation solutions, unveils today a new Safety-Driven Verification and Validation paradigm for large-scale deployment of Automated Driving Systems. The new holistic approach addresses an industry mandate to bridge a growing gap between traditional manual safety engineering processes and automated scenario-based verification and validation that hinders the commercial deployment of Automated Driving Systems.

Verification and validation of safety is the major barrier to large-scale commercial deployment of Automated Driving Systems. While state-of-the-art Level-3 and Level-4 systems can operate most times in limited areas, they struggle to extend to larger areas, and there are still too many edge cases where they fail.

“Traditional safety processes used by car makers for years do not scale to automated driving systems,” said Ziv Binyamini, Foretellix CEO and co-founder. “The safety challenges resulting from complex software-defined vehicles navigating through the long tail of real-world unknown edge scenarios are immense. Expanding on our market-leading automated V&V solutions, we are rolling out our safety-driven verification and validation vision in the Foretify platform to address this challenge and enable customers to safely deploy autonomy at scale”, said Binyamini.

Designed by verification and validation veterans together with automotive and safety experts, Foretellix’s Foretify™ platform enables tight collaboration between core development, safety, and V&V teams at OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.  From requirements definition and early project design throughout production and over-the-air updates, Foretify helps customers to boost productivity, improve time to market, and achieve the required safety goals for large-scale deployment of Automated Driving Systems.

With native ASAM OpenSCENARIO® 2.0 support, Foretify provides a common language to describe the infinite space of possible driving scenarios and define KPIs, safety checks, and coverage metrics. The platform is designed to uncover unknown edge cases following guidelines from the latest safety standards. It generates, orchestrates, and executes a multitude of test scenarios and safety checks in virtual simulation optimized to represent real-world scenarios and uncover safety risks. Foretify continuously measures and analyzes verification and validation completeness, correlates test results to safety goals, and generates safety case evidence.

The Foretify platform, with safety-driven verification and validation capabilities, is used today by automotive, trucking, and mining customers to verify and validate their ADAS and Automated Driving Systems for safe and large-scale commercial deployment. Foretellix will demonstrate the Foretify platform at CES in Las Vegas on January 5-8, 2023.

For more information, download the Safety-Driven Verification and Validation guide or contact us at info@foretellix.com

About Foretellix

Foretellix is the leading provider of verification and validation solutions for ADAS and Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking, and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

Media Contacts:

Scott Fosgard | scott@fosgardpr.com | +1 734-272-7440

Joint offering to provide a comprehensive solution for testing of perception and planning

Tel Aviv, Israel, November 21, 2022 – Foretellix and Cognata announce a joint solution that pairs Cognata’s developers’ simulation engine, Enterprise, with Foretellix’s Foretify™ verification and validation platform. The joint solution helps ensure the safety of ADAS and AV systems, reduces development costs, and improves time to market.

Based on Cognata’s photo-realistic, multi-layered simulation technology and Foretellix’s scenario-based, hyper-scale verification and validation platform, the joint solution helps ADAS and AV development teams to perform massive-scale testing of perception and planning throughout the entire development cycle.

“The integration between Cognata’s Enterprise and Foretify™ will enable safe commercial deployment of autonomous solutions in multiple applications including advanced ADAS, L3 highway pilot, L4 hub-to-hub trucking, L4 mining, and more,” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix. “Our joint solution provides customers the quality and scale needed to ensure safe commercial deployment of ADAS and automated driving systems.”

“Cognata’s photo-realistic, multi-layered simulation platform is designed to incorporate all factors into its simulation engine to create a full run-time orchestration, from planning to hardware-in-the-loop testing.” Said Danny Atsmon, CEO of Cognata. “Integrating with Foretellix’s verification and validation platform will allow for a full solution for on and off-road systems, and the large-scale verification and validation required to ensure ADAS and AV safe deployment.”

About Cognata

Cognata provides cutting-edge autonomous driving technologies with its end-to-end solutions for autonomous platforms. Other than an advanced engine creating a photorealistic simulation platform, Cognata offers the know-how of the market offerings, products integration and a comprehensive V&V walkthrough, end-to-end. Working with some of the largest autonomous vehicle makers tier 1’s in the world, Cognata accelerates the autonomous and ADAS engineering capabilities, and brings the unique power and expertise of artificial intelligence and computer vision, taking off years of the development process. For further information, visit http://www.cognata.com

About Foretellix 

Foretellix is the leading provider of verification and validation solutions for ADAS and Automated Driving Systems. Foretellix’s Foretify™️ platform helps automotive, trucking, and mining customers to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and accelerate time-to-market. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.foretellix.com

Press Contact:        

Cognata – Shay Rootman +972 52-664-9995  shay@cognata.com  
Foretellix – Dan Atzmon + 972 544 577716 dan.atzmon@Foretellix.com                              

 

Joint solution to benefit from native support of the recently released ASAM’s OpenSCENARIO 2.0.0 standard that revolutionizes the way safety is built into autonomous systems

Budapest, Hungary / Tel Aviv, Israel – 26^th of October – Foretellix and aiMotive are partnering to accelerate the safe deployment of ADAS and AV systems. The joint solution combines Foretellix’s Foretify™ and aiMotive’s aiSim™ platforms to empower engineers with an end-to-end virtual solution. The solution focuses on enabling verification and validation solutions of ADAS and AV perceptions and planning functions for trucks, commercial vehicles, and passenger vehicles. Central to the joint solution is the native support of the recently approved ASAM OpenSCENARIO® 2.0.0 standard (OSC2). The standard uses a language and domain model for scenario-based testing and paves the way for large-scale generation and testing (million simulations/day) required for the safe deployment of ADAS and AV vehicles.

The joint solution allows product development teams to define abstract scenarios using OSC2 and use Foretify™ to automatically generate millions of concrete scenarios that can be executed by aiSim™ in its purpose-built, GPU-based, and ISO26262 ASIL-D certified simulation engine. The data from this massive simulation set is gathered, analyzed, and displayed on an advanced dashboard, allowing the teams to focus on bugs, edge cases, and unknowns. This inherently scalable validation solution will reduce development timelines by exposing software bugs faster than real-world testing.

“Foretellix is excited to partner with aiMotive, one of the leading simulation providers for the automotive industry. We share a common understanding that our customers expect to base their toolchain on open architectures and standards supporting the best-in-class tools. Our partnership will bring our joint customers a measurable and scalable simulation approach to validate ADAS and AV to ensure safety. Benefits will include substantial reductions in cost and accelerated time-to-market,” said Udi Jacobi, VP of Global Sales and Business Development of Foretellix.

“End-to-end simulation is the only way to replace real-world testing with relevant virtual miles. That is a challenge no company would be able to solve alone – that’s why we strive to work with the best in the field and create a complete and easy-to-integrate ecosystem. As a result of our partnership with Foretellix, we can deliver the most comprehensive validation and verification solution that takes care of everything from large-scale, intelligent scenario variation to the very details of the real-time environment and sensor simulation, giving our customers a significant advantage over their competitors at every point of development,” said Szabolcs Jánky, Product Director of aiSim™.

About Foretellix

Foretellix provides product development teams with revolutionary product development testing, verification, and validation platform, enabling the mass deployment of automated driving systems. The Foretellix platform orchestrates, manages, and analyses the massive number of tests required to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and shorten the time-to-market of ADS deployment. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Visit https://www.foretellix.com

aiMotive

aiMotive is one of the world’s largest independent automotive technology powerhouses working on level-agnostic automated driving solutions. The company delivers an integrated portfolio of software, tools and hardware products complemented by proprietary data management tools, enabling customers to rapidly develop and deploy production automated driving features that combine in-house expertise with aiMotive modular capabilities while achieving substantial reductions in development costs and timescales. The company’s product portfolio has been validated in mass production programs. Its lightweight execution stack and sensor-agnostic, reusable data pipeline accelerate customers’ time to market.

aiMotive is a privately held company headquartered in Budapest, with offices in Munich, Germany, Mountain View and Detroit in the US, and Yokohama, Japan. Follow aiMotive on LinkedIn or Twitter, like us on Facebook, or learn more at www.aimotive.com.

Press contact

Foretellix:

Dan Atzmon
Head of Global Marketing
dan.atzmon@foretellix.com
+972 544 577716

aiMotive:

Bence Boda
Marketing & Communications Manager
bence.boda@aimotive.com
+36301828085

Tel Aviv, Israel, and Karlsruhe, Germany, July 21, 2022 – Foretellix, a leading ADAS and AV verification and validation platform provider, and IPG Automotive, a leading virtual vehicle simulation provider for ADAS and automated driving systems, are strengthening their cooperation to bring a comprehensive solution that will reduce development costs and time to market and increase the safety of automated driving systems.

Combining Foretellix’s Foretify verification and validation platform with IPG Automotive’s virtual vehicle simulation environment CarMaker yields a solution that can be rapidly deployed by ADAS/AD development teams. The combined toolchain enables large-scale virtual testing to accelerate the development and deployment of ADAS/AD systems. In comparison to real-world testing, bugs and edge cases are discovered faster, reducing costs and time to market.

Foretify determines, generates, and optimizes the set of test scenarios needed to ensure test coverage for the user’s ADAS/AD stack. It orchestrates the execution of the scenarios and interfaces with CarMaker, which runs each of the tests in a highly realistic simulation environment. CarMaker provides the high-fidelity virtual vehicle, sensors, traffic objects and 3D environment. CarMaker can run significantly faster than real time with minimal resources in HPC environments. Deployment of the combined solution in the cloud provides flexible simulation options, enables agile software development methods and is readily integrated into CI/CT processes.

“Foretellix is excited to partner with IPG Automotive, a leader in virtual simulation, to bring our mutual customers a comprehensive validation solution for ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Our joint solution supports the large-scale testing and validation required to ensure the safety and efficient operation of these advanced systems while providing our customers with a substantial reduction in cost and time to market,” said Udi Jacobi, VP Global Sales and Business Development of Foretellix.

”Foretify is an industry-leading platform for ADAS and autonomous systems validation and verification. CarMaker is a scalable simulation environment for ADAS/AD development. This is a proven combination that enables developers with one of the most advanced toolchains available to accelerate the development and deployment of ADAS driver assistance and automated driving systems, delivering results today,” says Martin Elbs, Senior Vice President and CCO at IPG Automotive.

 

About Foretellix

Foretellix provides product development teams with revolutionary product development testing, verification, and validation platform, enabling the mass deployment of automated driving systems. The Foretellix platform orchestrates, manages, and analyses the massive number of tests required to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and shorten the time-to-market of ADS deployment. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Visit https://www.foretellix.com

About IPG Automotive GmbH

As a global leader in virtual test driving technology, IPG Automotive develops innovative simulation solutions for vehicle development. The company’s software and hardware products for the application areas of autonomous vehicles, ADAS, powertrain and vehicle dynamics are designed for seamless use throughout the entire development process. www.ipg-automotive.com

Press contact
Carmen Nussbächer
IPG Automotive GmbH
Bannwaldallee 60
76185 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49 721 98520 206
Fax: +49 721 98520 99

E-Mail: press@ipg-automotive.com
Pressebereich: www.ipg-automotive.com/en/press

Mr. Hitzinger brings over 20 years of senior executive experience with VW, Porsche, and Apple

Tel Aviv, Israel – May 18, 2022 – Foretellix, a leading provider of a Verification & Validation (V&V) platform for Automated Driving Systems, has appointed Alexander Hitzinger to its board of Directors. In a recent blog, Mr., Hitzinger wrote about his decision to join Foretellix’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Hitzinger said: “Foretellix uses proven methodologies to verify complex digital products and is adapting them to the autonomy challenges. I am very excited to join this maverick team and work together to achieve our mission of a better, safer autonomous future.”

CEO and co-founder of Foretellix, Ziv Binyamini, said: “I am delighted to have Alex on board. His knowledge and experience will be invaluable in helping Foretellix meet the challenge of safer and more efficient automated driving systems deployment.”

Mr. Hitzinger has over two decades of experience in senior leadership roles in the automotive industry. He started his automotive career at Toyota Motorsport before joining Cosworth and Red Bull Technology. Hitzinger then joined Porsche as Technical Director and Chief Engineer of Porsche 919, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015. He spent three years at Apple as Head of Product Design for Project Titan. Most recently, Hitzinger served as Senior Vice President of Autonomous Driving at VW Group and Member of the Executive Board VWN, where he was involved in developing the ID Buzz. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Artemis GmbH, where he was the Chief Architect of the revolutionary new vehicle concept for next-generation autonomous mobility for their flagship-product Audi Landjet. Alex currently serves Board Member and Advisor to various automotive technology companies in the US and Israel.

 

About Foretellix

Foretellix provides product development teams with revolutionary product development testing, verification, and validation platform, enabling the mass deployment of automated driving systems. The Foretellix platform orchestrates, manages, and analyses the massive number of tests required to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and shorten the time-to-market of ADS deployment. Foretellix is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Visit https://www.foretellix.com