Under Euro NCAP’s 2026 protocols, the weighting of driver and occupant monitoring systems on a vehicle’s safety rating has significantly increased, and advanced driver distraction warning (ADDW) will become mandatory for all new vehicles from July 2026 under the EU’s General Safety Regulation. The challenge for OEMs and their suppliers is that these systems must work reliably across a vast range of real-world conditions and testing them physically is slow, expensive and limited in scope.

To address this, rFpro has launched the AV Elevate In Cabin add-on package, which enables automotive OEMs, Tier 1s and sensor developers to tune, train and test driver and occupant monitoring systems in simulation to improve the speed and consistency of in-cabin testing.

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Helm.ai has launched next-generation foundation models, GenSim-3 and VidGen-3, which it says are the first to achieve native full-HD (1,920 x 1,080) resolution across a full six-camera, 360° surround-view suite. By rendering a 12MP fully synchronized synthetic canvas per timestep, Helm.ai reportedly delivers five times higher pixel density than current state-of-the-art benchmarks for generative world models.

The foundation models address what is often referred to as the industry’s data wall, where the cost and effort of collecting real-world edge-case data can slow development. Traditional generative world models typically produce video at sub-HD or VGA resolutions (around 0.4MP per camera).

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Simulation software specialist rFpro has launched an engineering-grade digital twin of Japan’s Hakone Turnpike. The 15km toll road, which climbs through the forested mountains of Kanagawa Prefecture, is widely used by Japanese vehicle manufacturers for vehicle dynamics development. The model is commercially available and has already been adopted by a major Japanese OEM.

“Vehicle manufacturers are being asked to bring new models to market faster, at lower cost and with more variants than ever, and the only way to do that is to move more of their development work into simulation,” said Catherine Wood, head of content at rFpro.

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As automotive software becomes more sophisticated, extensive evaluation and validation to ensure the safety and performance of related products have emerged as critical processes, alongside global R&D competition in autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) technologies. Global auto makers are increasingly requiring suppliers to provide large-scale, data-driven validation, often involving tens of thousands of hours of testing, before approving core components for use in software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

Hyundai Mobis has established a data integration management solution that it says significantly shortens this process, enabling the company to secure a competitive edge in the global market.

The evaluation and validation system can repeatedly test electronic control units (ECUs) for SDVs and autonomous driving by linking data from actual road tests with data management solutions and simulators to replicate various driving scenarios.

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GAC Aion has launched pre-sales for the Aion N60, a smart urban SUV powered by WeRide Driving (WRD 3.0), formally known as WePilot – the company’s one-stage end-to-end advanced driver assistance system solution.

The Aion N60 has intelligent driving features across the entire line-up, bringing advanced assisted driving to a broad consumer market. With WeRide WRD 3.0, the Aion N60 delivers full-scenario, full-function ADAS capabilities, covering urban roads, highways, parking and active and passive safety.

The Aion N60 is the first mass‑produced passenger vehicle jointly developed by WeRide and GAC Aion, and also marks WeRide’s first mass-production deployment of one-stage end-to-end technology on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform.

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The new EQS features steer-by-wire technology that transforms the interaction between the driver and vehicle with “precise, intuitive and effortless steering”, Mercedes‑Benz said, and which will support automated steering and future autonomous functions. It is the first production vehicle from a German auto maker with this technology.

The new steering feel benefits driving dynamics, maneuvering and parking. With steer-by-wire, the steering effort required from the driver can be further reduced and the driver no longer needs to adjust their grip on the steering wheel when turning. Vibrations caused by uneven road surfaces, which were previously transmitted to the driver via the steering wheel, can now be eliminated.

Continue reading Mercedes‑Benz adds steer-by-wire to EQS at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

AVL Mobility Technologies and Ansible Motion have partnered to offer vehicle manufacturers and suppliers a combined solution integrating AVL’s VSM software with Ansible Motion’s driver-in-the-loop simulators. The collaboration aims to support virtual development processes by enabling faster component and vehicle development, while reducing testing and validation time and associated costs.

AVL VSM is a flexible, real-time simulation tool that enables users to model components, systems and complete vehicles. It allows them to test vehicle dynamics and performance in realistic scenarios, which is crucial for optimizing vehicle characteristics and ensuring safety. VSM enables a more integrated approach to vehicle design and optimization by allowing simultaneous consideration of various vehicle attributes and components and how they interact.

Continue reading AVL and Ansible advance vehicle validation with integrated simulation and driver-in-the-loop testing at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

dSPACE and MathWorks have expanded their partnership to streamline traffic simulation using open standards. Developers of autonomous driving applications can now use road models created in RoadRunner directly in ASM OpenX, the latest generation of dSPACE traffic models, improving efficiency and reducing development time.

“By combining the ASM OpenX with RoadRunner as a powerful road editor, we enable our customers to simulate traffic scenarios much more efficiently and cost-effectively on a wide variety of road models and thus in a very broad range of operational design domains (ODDs),” said Thorsten Püschl, product manager at dSPACE. “In close coordination with MathWorks, we have created a seamless and practical solution.”

ASM OpenX is the latest generation of dSPACE traffic models, built natively on the OpenScenario and OpenDrive standards.

Continue reading dSPACE and MathWorks streamline autonomous driving simulation at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

WeRide has launched WeRide Genesis, its proprietary general-purpose simulation model that bridges physical AI and generative AI, connecting the real and simulated worlds to accelerate the development, training and validation of autonomous vehicles at scale.

Leveraging generative AI, WeRide Genesis can rapidly generate highly realistic virtual worlds, building simulated cities within minutes and accurately reproducing rare, extreme real-world driving scenarios that are difficult to capture on actual roads. This enables AVs to undergo large-scale training and validation in simulation. Insights generated are continuously fed back into real-world operations, significantly enhancing AV performance in complex scenarios, speeding up iteration cycles and reducing time and cost compared with traditional road testing.

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Roger Ordman, VP of marketing at Foretellix, which provides data automation for AI-powered autonomy, shares the company’s plans ahead of this year’s CES (January 6-9, 2026), in an exclusive interview first published in the January 2026 issue of ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International magazine.

What do you like most about CES?

The energy. CES brings together innovators, engineers and decision-makers shaping the future of mobility, and year after year, you can feel the industry’s momentum. It has always been more than a show for us; it’s where meaningful conversations happen and relationships strengthen.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: Foretellix shares its plans for CES at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.