Partnership to Promote Foretellix Foretify™ platform in the Chinese Market to enable mass deployment of Automated Driving Systems

Beijing, China and Tel Aviv, Israel – Mar. 25, 2021 – Jingwei HiRain, a Tier 1 provider and a leading high-tech automotive technology supplier in China, and Foretellix, a leading Automated Driving Systems Verification solution provider, announced a new partnership to accelerate the distribution and adoption of Foretify™, Foretellix’s verification & validation platform and enable mass deployment of ADAS and autonomous vehicle systems in China.

Foretellix’s novel verification platform Foretify™, is already in use by leading OEM and Tier 1s such as DENSO Corporation. Foretify™ uses coverage-driven verification tools and methodologies proven in the semiconductor chip industry to conduct the verification of software and hardware automated driving systems such as ADAS and AV stacks. Foretify™ allows for a significant reduction in cost by identifying bugs and edge cases early in the development cycle. Foretify™ reduces unnecessary recalls, as well as lowers the overall cost of testing and time to deployment by providing unparalleled productivity gains through automation. In late 2020, Foretellix released an ADAS and Highway verification & validation solution that provides an out-of-the-box library of scenarios, test suite and a reference verification plan designed to verify the safe deployment of current and future generation automated driving systems and functions.

Jingwei HiRain’s core operating areas are spread across four business sectors: automotive electronics (including intelligent driving and telematics), mobility solutions consulting services, research and development, tool agency and professional training. Through years of technology accumulation, Jingwei HiRain, as a supplier, has offered products to General Motors, Ford, Jaguar-Land Rover, FAW-Volkswagen Automobile, SAIC, Dongfeng, BAIC, GAC, Geely and Jiangling Motors.

“At Jingwei HiRain, we are continuously evolving and developing new solutions to enhance customers’ processes and success,” said Yingcun Ji, CEO of Jingwei HiRain. “With Foretellix’s verification platform Foretify™ we found an innovative and unique technology that perfectly complements our growing portfolio in the automated driving systems verification area.”

“We’re excited to work with Jingwei HiRain, a highly-respected partner that shares our mission to help the automated driving systems industry achieve safe mass-scale deployment.” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix. “China is one of the world’s most advanced Automated Driving Systems markets and we look forward to building this strategic collaboration with Jingwei HiRain to make vehicles safer.”

Jingwei HiRain will be representing Foretellix in China.

To learn more about Foretellix please contact Jingwei HiRain via: market_dept@hirain.com

About Jingwei HiRain

Since its founding in 2003, Jingwei HiRain has grown to become an advanced supplier for automotive electronic products (including intelligent driving, IOV, New Energy, AI), project consulting & engineering, development tools and operational services. The company is headquartered in Beijing with branch companies in Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Detroit (US) and Munich (Germany); offices in Changchun, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanchang and Xian; factories in Tianjin and Nantong. Jingwei HiRain now owns more than 2700 employees, and 54% of them hold either Doctorate or Masters Degrees in engineering or business. Guiding by the principles of delivering exceptional customer value, high quality products and superior customer service, Jingwei HiRain is serving thousands of clients globally. For more information, visit http://www.hirain.com

About Foretellix

Foretellix provides a revolutionary development lifecycle Verification & Validation platform for enabling mass deployment of automated driving systems. Foretellix is using proven approaches from the semiconductor chip industry utilizing hyper-automation, big data analytics, and AI. The platform orchestrates and manages the massive scale of testing required to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and shorten the time to market of Automated Driving Systems deployment.

Visit https://www.foretellix.com

© Copyright 2021, Foretellix

Media Contacts:

Jingwei HiRain:

China – Beijing
+86 10 6484 0808
market_dept@hirain.com

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

Joint Live Demonstration at AAA Northern California’s GoMentum Station is Planned for May 2021, Displaying a Complete Virtual and Physical Verification and Validation Flow

Farmington Hills, MI, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel – March 16, 2021 – Humanetics, one of the world’s leading providers of active safety testing equipment and services, and Foretellix, a leading provider of Verification & Validation (V&V) platforms for Automated Driving Systems, demonstrate a joint toolchain that bridges the gap and allows for correlation between virtual and physical testing. The demonstration, in a video released today (Humanetics and Foretellix Video), will be followed up by a live event in May of this year at the AAA Northern California’s GoMentum Station in California.

The new joint offering combines physical and virtual testing of Automated Driving Assisted Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving Systems (ADS). This will help OEMs and Tier 1s reduce development and validation costs while accelerating regulated and non-regulated testing to ensure safety and compliance, taking into account the ever-growing complexity of ADAS and ADS.

In a video released today (Humanetics and Foretellix Video), the companies showcase a complete Verification & Validation cycle of a scenario for testing ADAS. The scenario is first defined on Foretellix’s verification platform, Foretify™, using M-SDL, an open-source productivity language invented by Foretellix. This abstract scenario is then utilized by Foretify™ to automatically create thousands of meaningful tests that can be sent to different test platforms (e.g. simulators, HIL, test tracks). In the demonstration, a set of concrete tests are subsequently sent to the Humanetics UFO Base control software. The Humanetics test robots (UFOs, Driving Robots) are then able to accurately execute these tests on the proving ground by converting the data with UFO Base Script (.ubs). Once conducted, the data from the test is sent back to the Foretify ™ productivity dashboard for KPI & Coverage Driven analysis, correlation with the virtual testing and further iterations on the different simulators – providing a visual and quantifiable coverage status of the testing process progress.

In May of this year, the partnering companies plan to conduct a joint event at AAA Northern California’s GoMentum Station in Concord, California. The event will include a live demonstration of the joint toolchain featuring Foretellix’s Foretify™ Verification & Validation platform and its unified Coverage Driven Verification productivity dashboard working together with Humanetics test robots (UFOs, Driving Robots).

To pre-register for the event (dates tentative and subject to change) – Humanetics and Foretellix Live Demo Event Registration

“With this combined technology demonstration, we can create a complex scenario with multiple actors such as motor vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists and other vulnerable road users on a virtual platform, and port this scenario to Humanetics’ robots for conducting physical testing on the proving ground. This integration with Foretellix will help customers optimize their test cycles and by improving the data consistency between virtual and physical testing, we can reduce the time and resources needed to run these important tests.” Sanket Mehta, VP Business Development of Humanetics.

“Working with Humanetics enables us to demonstrate how to bridge physical and virtual testing, employing a unified toolchain that generates and executes tests on different platforms – both virtual and physical – and analyzes all that data in one unified productivity dashboard,” says Ziv Binyamini, CEO and Co-founder of Foretellix. “We believe that a unified Verification and Validation platform showing coverage data from both physical and virtual simulation testing is the way forward for the automotive industry’s quest for improving safety and ensuring a faster development cycle of Automated Driving Systems”.

About Humanetics

For over 65 years, Humanetics has been the leading global market designer, manufacturer and supplier of crash test dummies and calibration equipment, crash sensors and instrumentation, active safety testing equipment and services for autonomous vehicles and crash simulation software models. Humanetics serves industry leaders in a variety of high-growth markets including automotive, aviation, energy, medical, military and civil infrastructure. In the automotive sector alone, Humanetics serves 100% of the OEMs and Tier I safety suppliers worldwide. Humanetics has over 800 employees across 22 facilities strategically located around the world with its global corporate headquarters located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.

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About Foretellix

Foretellix provides a revolutionary development lifecycle Verification & Validation platform for enabling mass deployment of automated driving systems. Foretellix is using proven approaches from the semiconductor chip industry utilizing hyper-automation, big data analytics, and AI. The platform orchestrates and manages the massive scale of testing required to ensure safety, reduce development costs, and shorten the time to market of Automated Driving Systems deployment.

foretellix.com

About GoMentum Station

GoMentum Station is the largest connected and automated vehicle testing facility in the United States, owned and operated by AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah. It supports next-generation automated driving and mobility technology development, and helps advance transportation safety to bring unprecedented mobility options to the public. It offers a range of road features and testing services for automated driving system developers including: test plan development, equipment rental and a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) lab for testing connected technologies.

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Humanetics:

Europe: Markus Schmidl, +43 (0) 699 18 25 49 46, mschmidl@humanetics.eu

North America: Sanket Mehta, +1 510 203 0116, smehta@humaneticsatd.com

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

Volvo Autonomous Solutions has signed an agreement with verification experts Foretellix to jointly address the challenges of large-scale verification of autonomous driving solutions on highways and confined areas, such as mines.

Volvo Autonomous Solutions has formed a partnership with Foretellix to jointly create a Coverage Driven Verification solution for autonomous driving solutions operating on both public roads and in confined areas. The solution will enable massive scale testing of millions of different scenarios, which will validate autonomous vehicles and machines dealing with anything they might encounter within their specified Operational Design Domain (ODD).

The partnership will focus on providing high levels of safety and productivity of Volvo Autonomous Solution vehicles and machines. The ability of the solution to orchestrate large scale simulation and conduct the big data analysis required will lead to a substantial reduction in costs and time to market, ensuring faster operational readiness and the ability to safely scale up the system across multiple sites and ODDs.
Intelligent automation and analytics tools

Foretellix is a pioneer in the commercialization of coverage-driven methodologies for automated driving systems verification. Foretellix developed a novel verification platform that uses intelligent automation and big data analytics tools that coordinate and monitor millions of driving scenarios, to expose bugs and edge cases, including the most extreme cases.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions will jointly adapt Foretellix’s verification system for both highways and confined area applications, such as mines and quarries.

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Foretellix will use the Open Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL) created by Foretellix. M-SDL simplifies the capture, reuse and sharing of scenarios, and can specify any mix of scenarios and operating conditions, to identify previously unknown hazards.

“Volvo Autonomous Solutions believes in a collaborative verification concept, one that uses open standards,” says Magnus Liljeqvist, Global Technology Manager Volvo Autonomous Solutions. “The partnership with Foretellix gives us access to the state-of-the-art verification tools and accelerating our time to market.

“We are very proud to partner with Volvo Group. This partnership is a significant milestone for the industry as it is the first time that large-scale Coverage Driven Verification will be used for verification of ADS in confined areas. Our partnership will combine the expertise of the two companies and set a new standard in the verification of automated driving systems, boosting both safety and productivity,” says Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix..

In 2020 both companies conducted a successful pre-study that evaluated the Foretellix portfolio and its potential value in confined areas.
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For further information, please contact:

Media Contacts:

Anna Arbius, Head of Marketing & Communications, Volvo Autonomous solutions, +46 739022993.
volvoautonomoussolutions.com/news

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

About Volvo

Volvo Autonomous Solutions is a separate business area of the Volvo Group. Incorporated in January 2020, its mission is to accelerate the development, commercialization and sales of autonomous solutions for our defined segments in the on-road and off-road space. In such segments, autonomous transport solutions can create value for customers by contributing to improved flexibility, delivery precision and productivity. Visit www.volvoautonomoussolutions.com

About Foretellix

Foretellix provides a revolutionary development lifecycle verification platform for enabling mass deployment of autonomous driving systems. Foretellix is using proven approaches from the semiconductor chip industry utilizing hyper-automation, big data analytics and AI. The platform orchestrates and manages the massive scale of testing required to ensure safety, reduce development cost, and shorten time to market of ADS deployment. Visit foretellix.com

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DENSO to use Foretellix’s Foretify™ platform and the newly announced ADAS & Highway solution to advance safety of DENSO’s next-generation products

Kariya, Japan and Tel Aviv, Israel – November 17th, 2020 – DENSO Corporation, the world’s second-largest mobility supplier, has selected Foretify™, Foretellix’s advanced coverage driven verification platform, to enhance safety and reduce both development costs and time-to-market for its new ADAS and automated driving solutions.

The Foretify™ platform allows for a significant reduction in cost of failure by identifying bugs, edge cases and unknowns early in the development cycle. Foretify™ reduces unnecessary recalls, as well as lowering the cost of testing by providing unparalleled productivity gains through automation. It also allows for a reduction in time to deployment of ADAS and automated driving functions by utilizing proven coverage-driven methodologies. Foretellix recently released an ADAS and Highway solution that provides an out-of-the-box library of scenarios, test suite and a reference verification plan designed to safely deploy current and future generation automated driving functions.

DENSO’s commitment to safety and quality were key considerations throughout this collaboration. “DENSO considers the quality and safety of its ADAS and autonomous vehicles of the outmost importance,” said Tasuku Hayakawa, Manager of DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH. “Following a successful pilot earlier this year, DENSO Germany decided to collaborate with Foretellix and to use the Foretify™ platform with a number of DENSO’s ADAS solutions. We see the potential of Foretellix’s intelligent verification platform to enable DENSO to ensure safety as we scale from ADAS solutions to advanced driving solutions.”

“It’s a privilege and an honor to work with DENSO Corporation, a leader in advanced driving systems. We share a common vision on the importance of uncompromising quality and safety. We look forward to working together, combining the power of DENSO’s scale and experience with Fortellix’s coverage driven verification technology,” said Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix.

About DENSO Corporation

DENSO is a $47.6 billion global mobility supplier that develops advanced technology and components for nearly every vehicle make and model on the road today. With manufacturing at its core, DENSO invests in its 200 facilities worldwide to produce thermal, powertrain, mobility, electrification, & electronic systems, creating jobs that directly change how the world moves. The company’s more than 170,000 employees are paving the way to a mobility future that improves lives, eliminates traffic accidents, and preserves the environment. Globally headquartered in Kariya, Japan, DENSO spent 9.9 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020. For more information about global DENSO, visit www.denso.com.

About Foretellix

Foretellix is enabling the Digital Transformation of safety-critical automotive verification. Foretellix solutions uniquely scale to meet the challenge of verifying the safety of today’s increasingly complex driving systems. Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation combined with a highly automated and proven Coverage Driven Verification methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

© Copyright 2020 DENSO Corporation, Foretellix

Media Contacts:

DENSO Corporation:

Julie Dacanay
Corporate Communications | DENSO Europe
eu_dieu_corporate_communications@eu.denso.com

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

Mobileye and Foretellix demonstrate safety regulation compliance flow for Automated Driving Systems using new ALKS package with RSS

Tel Aviv, Israel – October 19th, 2020 – Foretellix today announced its new ALKS verification package, the world’s first commercial solution for the newly announced Automatic Lane-Keeping System (ALKS) regulation. The new package includes support of Mobileye Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) following a successful joint demonstration of ALKS safety regulation and compliance flow. The new verification package will help automakers address the regulatory and certification requirements of ALKS automated driving systems.

Foretellix has recently released its novel ADAS & Highway solution that provides an out-of-the-box, comprehensive verification package from Level 2 driver-assist technologies to Level 4 highway-focused, fully autonomous solutions. With the introduction of the new package, the solution now includes the first-ever commercial implementation of new ALKS regulation by the UNECE, the world’s first Level 3 regulation.

In a joint demonstration with Mobileye, the ALKS verification package generated the required regulation scenarios and parameters and provided measurable metrics on the RSS controlled vehicle behavior. The package used Mobileye’s RSS model to ensure that the tested vehicle does not initiate dangerous situations and properly responds to dangerous situations initiated by other vehicles. These scenarios were varied over a wide range of parameter values, demonstrating that safety, as well as regulatory requirements, are met.

“We are excited to show how our Coverage Driven verification approach, combined with Mobileye’s RSS, helps bring the industry closer to the goal of measurable safety,” said Gil Amid, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer and Foretellix co-founder.

“Regulators will require proof of a vehicle’s ability to avoid reasonably foreseeable and preventable collisions,” said Jack Weast, Vice President of AV standards at Mobileye. “The Foretellix Foretify approach using RSS gives OEMs a way to demonstrate compliance with the most advanced automated driving regulation in the world.”

About Foretellix

Foretellix is enabling the Digital Transformation of safety-critical automotive verification. Foretellix solutions uniquely scale to meet the challenge of verifying the safety of today’s increasingly complex driving systems. Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation combined with a highly automated and proven Coverage Driven Verification methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com.

© Copyright 2020 Foretellix

Media Contacts:

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com

Metamoto technology to be incorporated into the Foretellix platform to meet growing demand from OEMs and Tier1s and ease integration with simulator partners

Tel Aviv, Israel – October 7th, 2020 – Foretellix, a company with a mission to enable measurable safety for advanced automatic driving systems, announced today that it will acquire Metamoto, developer of a cloud-based solution for testing and validation of automotive software.

Incorporating Metamoto’s expertise and technology will assist Foretellix in accelerating its roadmap, providing OEMs and Tier 1s with a best in class, simulator agnostic verification & Validation solution. The Foretellix solution helps to expose bugs and edge cases early in the development cycle; reduce the cost of testing using intelligent automation and reduce time to deployment.

Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix, said: “The automotive industry is experiencing rapid changes following the accelerated adoption of ADAS and autonomous driving systems and the impact of COVID19. We are hearing from our customers that these two factors have made the need for virtual testing and automation of verification & validation more relevant for them. At Metamoto, we found a like-minded team of professionals who share our approach and commitment to safety. Their expertise will help us provide better integration with our simulator partners and expedite the development of our cloud infrastructure. We’re looking forward to working together to provide the most comprehensive verification solution for the automotive industry.”

Paul Scott, CTO of Metamoto said: “We’re excited to join forces with Team Foretellix. We share a similar vision on how complex verification & validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles should look. Like Fortellix, over the past year, we’ve seen growing customer interest in making our scalable infrastructure simulator agnostic. We believe that Foretellix’s solution is a key ingredient to the safe and broad deployment of new ADAS functions and eventually autonomous vehicles. We are excited to take part in this journey.”

Following the acquisition, Foretellix will open a US R&D center to expand its US operation. The combined Metamoto and Foretellix team will comprise approximately 60 employees in the US, Europe and Israel.

Foretellix was represented in this transaction by Adv. Shay Dayan and Adv. Kay Geller from Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. Metamoto was represented by Telegraph Hill Advisors and the Ridless Law Office.

About Foretellix

Foretellix’s mission is to enable ‘measurable safety’ of autonomous vehicles, enabled by a transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’.

Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurable verification and validation, with a highly automated and proven coverage driven methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of autonomous vehicles.

Foretellix’s Foretify™ Technology includes an open, high-level Measurable Scenario Description Language (M-SDL), intelligent and scalable automation, analytics and metrics. This includes the functional coverage metrics required to make a compelling ‘safety case’ to consumers, developers, insurance companies and regulators. To learn more, visit www.foretellix.com/.

© Copyright 2020 Foretellix

Media Contacts:

Foretellix:

Israel
Moshe Mendelson
+972 508993284
moshe@gopositive.co.il

North America
Scott Fosgard
+1 734 272 7440
scott@fosgardpr.com

Europe
Mike Stainton
+44 7739 891040
mike.stainton@pfpr.com