Oxbotica taps metaverse to improve autonomous vehicle detection scenarios

Safety has always been the ultimate concern in the field of autonomous vehicles, and aiming to address these concerns, software provider Oxbotica is using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in the metaverse to accelerate the safe and efficient deployment of autonomous vehicle technology, while also reducing carbon emissions generated by vehicles when driving. The launch comes just weeks after Oxbotica announced that it had completed the first safe and sustainable deployment of a zero-occupancy, fully autonomous, new-type electric vehicle on publicly accessible roads in Europe. The new Oxbotica MetaDriver suite of tools includes virtual world simulation, automated discovery of challenging scenarios, and real-time data expansion. It is designed to help autonomous vehicles answer three core questions: "Do I see it right?", MetaDriver generates what the company says is a "vast" bank of scenarios that are used to test and refine autonomous vehicle operations and behaviours without ever needing to physically drive in them, accelerating commercial readiness.