We discuss how simulation has continued to increase in importance in the development and validation of self driving vehicles and how Tesla and others are using simulation. We unpack the evolution of simulation from playback of driving events, to simulating a new drive, to actually training neural networks inside the simulation. Simulation is a key enabler for massive scaling and improvement of the software.

Article and video we discussed:

Inside Waymo’s Carcraft Simulator - https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/537648/

Zoox’s usage of Simulation - https://youtu.be/otmxoK4lCNw?t=23m5s

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