Open. Transparent. Qualified.

We build the benchmark for transparent, trustworthy, and sovereign AD software. Making open-source driving stacks easier to evaluate, easier to trust, and easier to integrate.

Open-source automated driving stacks are powerful, but without transparent benchmarking and qualification, industrial adoption remains slow and risky. We close that gap. Not with black-box claims, but with transparent benchmarks run on your data, structured qualification documentation, and evidence that holds up where it counts.

We identify the right open-source components for your target application and compliance requirements, and map them against your existing stack.

Automated evaluation and testing for open-source AD components. Transparent, reproducible metrics and report generation. Running on your data for your auditable evidence.

Structured qualification documentation aligned with relevant standards. Ready for internal sign-off or external regulatory audit.

Expert consulting to help OEM and autonomy teams select, adopt, and integrate open-source AD software into real delivery pipelines.

Repository	Description	Teaser	Release
autonomy_datasets	Unified ROS 2 Interface for automated driving datasets.
autonomy_evaluation	Within the Autonomy.Benchmarks suite, Autonomy.Evaluation generates the metrics-based evidence for benchmarking automated driving deployments.
autonomy_bot	Easily benchmark automated driving modules and full AD stacks as part of your CI/CD workflow.		🚧 Under Construction

Thinking Cars is an active contributor and maintainer in the OpenADS community — an ecosystem for building and benchmarking interoperable AD software. Developed as part of Germany's Ecosystem Mobility 4.0 initiative and aligned with the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance.

Repository	Description	Release
OpenADS	Open Automated Driving Systems Ecosystem, including automated driving software stack, simulation and development toolchain.
OpenADStack	Baseline reference implementation for modular ROS 2 automated-driving stacks in OpenADS.
OpenADSim	Simulation environment for testing the OpenADStack with CARLA or SUMO.
OpenADSuite	Development tools that streamline developer workflows, such as module templates and ready-to-use development environments.
OpenADSafety 🚧	Documentation and tools for validation and verification of automated-driving modules and full stacks.

Repository	Description	Teaser	Release
autoware_lidar_centerpoint	Modularized 3D lidar detection model from Autoware Universe.
autoware_multi_object_tracker	Modularized 3D multi-object tracker from Autoware Universe.
focalformer3d_detector	ROS 2 integration of the NVlabs/FocalFormer3D lidar object detection model.