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Meaningful miles: tech companies strive for testing efficiency

TuSimple makes a convincing case for an alternative approach to AV testing, but tech giants like Waymo swear by the data from millions of self-driven miles. By Xavier Boucherat

As any autonomous vehicle (AV) developer will tell you, the two major phases of testing for a product with such massive safety considerations are verification and validation. The former ensures that a function works as intended, during which time it is pushed to its limits. During this time, developers will purposely try to break a system, in order to identify edges and maximise robustness. Validation follows, a statistic-based process in which integrity is measured and unexpected failures taking place outside of predictions are watched for.

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