Dearborn — It was a sweltering day in southeast Michigan Wednesday, but snow was falling at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Development Center — virtual snow on a virtual highway, that is. Changing weather ...

NI has bought autonomous vehicle simulator monoDrive, expanding the company's footprint into the autonomous driving space as the industry works to expand beyond testing into real-life situations.

Autonomous vehicle companies use simulators to train their self-driving systems and teach them how to react to “agents” — things like pedestrians, cyclists, traffic signals and other cars. To have a ...