How Safe Is Safe Enough?
Exponent uses rigorous failure analysis and component-, system-, and process-level methodologies to evaluate ADAS and AV performance and help you understand possible risks.
Confidence for the Road Ahead
As mobility becomes increasingly powered by AI, the challenges can become more complex. Exponent's multidisciplinary experts bridge AI, safety engineering, cybersecurity, and real‑world testing to evaluate how new technologies perform.
Confidence for the Road Ahead
As mobility becomes increasingly powered by AI, the challenges can become more complex. Exponent's multidisciplinary experts bridge AI, safety engineering, cybersecurity, and real‑world testing to evaluate how new technologies perform.
how we help clients
Understand what contributed to an incident
Exponent's independent investigations re-create complex real-world conditions both through simulation and live accident reconstruction at our 47-acre Phoenix facility. From stress-testing sensor performance and algorithm outputs to analyzing onboard data to dynamic scenario modeling, we reveal the technical, operational, and environmental factors that contributed to an incident.
Establish your safety case
AV technologies face growing pressure to prove their safety as deployments accelerate. Drawing on decades of cross-disciplinary expertise — from failure analysis and vehicle engineering to cybersecurity, biomechanics, human factors, electrical engineering, and data science — Exponent helps build and assess safety cases rooted in scientific rigor. We identify potential risks and evaluate reliability, enabling you to understand and explain the safety of your product.
Make sense of complex data and software
ADAS and AV system performance evaluations require data pipeline and software interaction reviews. Leveraging original research and real-world testing, Exponent helps you reduce uncertainty by analyzing the data quality, integration, and algorithms that may impact real-world vehicle performance.
Put integrated technologies to the test
Exponent's cross-functional teams test, validate, and characterize emerging vehicle technologies and analyze real-world performance. Our teams re-create complex operating environments with precision through remote vehicle control, custom test design, and strikable ADAS targets, giving you repeatable, defensible insights that strengthen safety, reliability, and system performance.
Secure automated and assisted driving systems
Cybersecurity risks range from data‑privacy breaches to high‑consequence physical failures and safety incidents. Exponent maximizes the value of your security investments across every stage of development, enabling you to get the most from the tools, data, and team you have. Applying the AVCDL framework, our engineers analyze threats, test safeguards, and assess vulnerabilities across hardware, software, and data pathways to harden critical technologies, protect IP, and build the security foundation required for large‑scale, real‑world deployment.
Evaluate how drivers engage with your systems
As AI capabilities change how people interact with apps and interfaces behind the wheel, driver behavior and distraction remain critical safety concerns. Exponent's human factors team helps you understand what your users are actually seeing and experiencing, providing the evidence you need to improve design, warnings, and overall system safety. Using wearables, eye‑tracking, remote sensing, and more, we instrument both people and vehicles to reveal not only how drivers interact with ADAS features, infotainment systems, and smartphone integrations but how those interactions shape cognitive loads, attention, fatigue, and physical state.
Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled
Exponent helps advance the safety and performance of emerging and automated transportation technologies through multidisciplinary expertise, robust testing, and data‑driven insights.
Autonomous Vehicle Analysis & Incident Response
Analyze autonomous vehicle accidents and incidents using a multidisciplinary approach.
ADAS Research, Testing & Consulting
Evaluate advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) at our advanced test track and facility.
Emerging Vehicle Technology Development
Balance safety and performance while advancing innovative transportation technologies.
Vehicle Electronics & Electrical Systems
Increase the viability of your ADAS applications with optimal design and function.
Data Collection & Analysis for Accident Reconstruction
Retrieve, preserve, and interpret critical onboard vehicle data.
Vehicle & Component Performance Analysis
Examine the strength, integrity, and performance of vehicles driven by internal combustion, electrical, and hybrid technologies.
Human Factors in Transportation Accidents
Understand how operators interact with vehicle controls and systems and contribute to accidents.
World-Class Experts & Facilities
Exponent accelerates the safe deployment of emerging transportation technologies at our 47‑acre, cutting-edge testing and evaluation facility in Phoenix. From our two‑mile industry test track to EV burn pad to indoor test sled, anechoic chamber, and more, we offer the insights, equipment, and expertise to solve your toughest challenges.
End-to-End Security Support
As cyber risks escalate, Exponent applies its comprehensive security framework and pioneering expertise to help AV developers reduce vulnerabilities, meet regulatory expectations, and protect system integrity.
Use AI with Confidence
AI offers immense opportunity — but also introduces risk, particularly in high-consequence sectors where safety, trust, and security are non-negotiable. Achieving confidence with AI requires insights rooted in rigorous science and engineering.
