Volvo is using Gaussian splatting in virtual worlds to make safer cars

"One thing is that we develop this in-house now, so instead of relying on suppliers with long deadlines and long process and sending requirements back and forth, we develop the software," said Erik Coelingh, VP of product at Zenseact, an ADAS developer owned by Volvo. Credit: Volvo Cars "If there's something, we solve it in a day," Coelingh said. "It's so much faster. So we iterate much faster. As Bakkenes said, we're all testing with the new software every single day. So the innovation speed is fundamentally different than before, and the way we try to use this is to really build safety and go toward lower accident rates in a pace that we've never seen before." Among the advantages of moving to SDVs is that it's much easier to simulate them since the entire software stack can be run virtually. That's why Volvo has built one of the largest data centers in Europe: to be able to run those sims. Like a lot of other companies out there, Volvo has turned to AI to speed up the developmen ... Read full article.