Test and Validation
AI for Smart Development
Improve Quality and Accelerate Time-To-Production
Transform test vehicles into intelligent validation platforms with cloud-to-edge AI to accelerate validation and get to production faster
Solution overview
The Fastlane Platform turns existing prototype and test vehicles into intelligent validation platforms. By combining AI-assisted data collection, vehicle-specific AI analysis, and edge AI execution through Fastlane Copilot, engineering teams can accelerate validation cycles, resolve issues faster, and maximize test fleet utilization.
- Capture context-rich vehicle data precisely when issues occur
- Accelerate root-cause analysis using vehicle AI and engineering knowledge
- Deploy edge AI and intelligent diagnostics into prototype vehicles
- Enable remote investigations and reduce dependence on physical vehicle access
- Continuously refine validation workflows through a closed-loop learning system
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- Vehicle-specific AI reasoning
- Cross-domain root-cause analysis
- Engineering knowledge integration
- Automated investigation workflows
- Closed-loop data, insight, and learning
- AI-assisted collection policy creation
- Dynamic and event-driven data collection
- Historical and real-time vehicle data access
- Time-series storage and compression
- Vehicle-wide access to signals and diagnostics
- Deploy AI and software-defined intelligence
- Validate Edge AI and virtual sensors
- Enable real-time anomaly detection
- Manage fleet-wide intelligence deployment
- Plug-in deployment into existing test vehicles
- Integrated Fastlane Collector and Fastlane Edge
- Rapid instrumentation of prototype fleets
- Connected cloud-to-vehicle validation workflows
- Accelerated test cycles and improved fleet utilization
Related resources
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FAQ
Fastlane Copilot offers a plug-in solution, comprising a hardware box pre-loaded with Fastlane Collector and Fastlane Edge. This solution can be up and running within days to assist vehicle testing rapidly without the need to integrate these software products into the vehicle E/E architecture.
In typical testing methodologies, brute force data loggers are deployed to test vehicles to attempt to capture failure scenarios, which are then painstakingly downloaded after a testing session. Unfortunately, using this approach, data is only provided after the testing is complete and the session may not have captured the relevant failure. Moreover, the cycle of learning is long, requiring follow-on driving sessions. Instead, using the Fastlane Platform, test data can be captured and streamed in real time to test engineers, even in remote locations, and testing and data capture can be rapidly adjusted even within a driving session. This approach can dramatically reduce testing costs and increase test vehicle efficiency and resolve issues in hours or days that would have taken weeks with existing approaches
Our company has strict privacy rules for our test data, will this data be exposed on a public cloud?
The Fastlane Platform is highly configurable and portable across an OEM’s preferred IT platforms and cloud providers. Sensitive OEM data is controlled by and remains the property of the OEM. The OEM can decide which IT systems and cloud solutions are used, to ensure the privacy of their sensitive testing data.
Fastlane insight serves as an optimization tool for OEM test engineers, helping them find failures, identify patterns across different subsystems, isolate the root cause, and determine corrective actions more rapidly. It bases its analysis on trusted data sources from the OEM, including complex technical manuals, service records, and other technical details, so the source of its conclusions is always thoroughly documented. Furthermore, because Fastlane Insight can incorporate information from multiple disciplines, it allows test and validation engineers to benefit from knowledge from a range of subsystems to augment their individual expertise.