The race to deploy fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) is accelerating. Waymo has already reached over 250k trips per week while Tesla and Zoox are ramping up. The key question for scaling is not “Can AVs drive?” but “How to know AVs are safe and reliable at scale?”
As developers, we live by a simple creed: if it’s not tested, it’s broken. We write unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to gain confidence. But what happens when the ‚test environment‘ is the unpredictable chaos of a public road, where an edge case can have severe repercussions?