From an expanded base in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Applied Intuition is rolling out more Self-Driving System programs in Europe. The enlarged hub features garages and workshops for fleet operations and a growing team building ADAS and automated driving features, leveraging a white-box autonomy stack that shortens time to market for European automakers.
Applied Intuition’s Self-Driving System continues to expand—this time in Europe.
As vehicle autonomy scales globally, a key challenge is the ability to adapt to new driving environments while meeting different countries’ safety standards. European roads offer a unique challenge—and opportunity—for Applied Intuition, which is why the company is expanding its self-driving vehicle operations in Stuttgart, Germany, adding to its engineering team in the city, and deepening its European focus.
The expanded office in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, which includes a garage and workshop for fleet development, is a strategic investment for Applied Intuition’s operations in Europe. It underscores the company’s commitment to working closely with European vehicle manufacturers to continue building advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving capabilities for production vehicles. It also marks the European debut of Applied Intuition’s Self-Driving System (SDS)—a scalable, end-to-end autonomy stack tailor-made for cars and commercial trucks navigating local roads and standards.
The Stuttgart operation combines Silicon Valley expertise with top local engineering talent, offering European vehicle manufacturers world-class tools and teams to quickly develop autonomy.
“This is the latest rollout of our SDS autonomy stack,” said Qasar Younis, Co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. “We’re thrilled to be growing in Stuttgart and beyond, and we’re only getting started.”
With the Stuttgart expansion, Applied Intuition is rapidly customizing its self-driving technology for new regions, and its engineers are already working with European vehicle manufacturers.
A key offering is Applied Intuition’s SDS—a unique end-to-end autonomy stack for passenger vehicles. Unlike black-box solutions that can’t be accessed or customized by vehicle manufacturers, Applied Intuition’s white-box SDS enables manufacturers to deploy ADAS and automated driving features while retaining control over brand experience and in-house capabilities.
This white-box approach is fundamental to how Applied Intuition operates. For example, the company recently partnered with Stellantis to build a single software platform that allows the automaker’s engineers to customize in-vehicle experiences across each of its 14 brands—all without having to rewrite systems or ask suppliers.
SDS is tailor-made for European roads and standards. Using the latest neural networks and ML models, it offers solutions for intelligent parking and advanced automated driving from urban to highway, as well as active safety functions like automatic emergency braking and lane keep assist. Designed for production readiness, SDS delivers human-like, safe driving that is both cost- and compute-efficient.
Applied Intuition’s engineers in Stuttgart are partnering with European vehicle manufacturers to build autonomy and ADAS solutions tailored for each company’s needs, support validation on local roads, and prepare for global deployments. While deploying the company’s end-to-end L2++ ADAS stack on German roads, the local team is also focusing on active safety features and intelligent parking functionalities.
Applied Intuition’s Automatic Park Assist detects free and occupied parking spots, visualizes them in a 3D virtual surround view in Applied’s infotainment system, and enables the user to select a spot where the car parks automatically
Applied Intuition’s Automatic Emergency Braking is honed with both digital and real-world testing in Germany
Applied Intuition has deep experience helping vehicle manufacturers rapidly deploy autonomous driving and ADAS in a structured way—a key advantage due to its industry-leading simulation and data tools and machine learning setup.
Already, the Stuttgart engineering team is quickly building features for European roads with tooling for ADAS and autonomous driving that has been long used by automakers in production programs. As a result, the Stuttgart team is quickly building SDS software and functions for European manufacturers, using mature tooling from the early stages of a project.
By doing so, it ensures the Stuttgart development team can make and track real progress over various key performance indicators that are generated from a large dataset of simulations and real-world testing. It also allows engineers to efficiently triage and fix any issue in a structured manner, all guided from one unified web frontend into development tooling.
The benefits extend to vehicle manufacturers as well. Through Applied Intuition’s white box approach, their developers and management teams gain direct access to the same tooling and interface, ensuring full transparency and collaboration.
In addition, parking and driving features are both implemented in the same code base and share common components, development tools, and ML workflows. As a result, engineers can quickly develop new combined functionalities.
Beyond the SDS-specific advancements, the growing office in Stuttgart-Vaihingen represents a major investment in local assets and engineering talent. Applied Intuition has already attracted engineers across Germany and Europe, each with about a decade of experience in the motor-vehicle industry. The new facility, with the garages and workshops necessary for vehicle fleet operations, will continue this growth.
Stuttgart is just the latest investment by Applied Intuition in its global partnerships, with a similar expansion planned for Japan. It’s all part of the company’s commitment to helping vehicle manufacturers quickly build superior advanced driver assistance and automated driving at efficient cost. If you want to help build and deploy self-driving technology with leading vehicle manufacturers, explore open roles at Applied Intuition.