Tempero gives OEMs, simulation vendors, and insurers the tools to surface critical safety failures fast — and to understand the behavioral landscape that produces them, before regulators, courts, or the road does.
The transition to L3–L5 autonomy is not an incremental engineering challenge. It is a categorical shift that breaks the assumptions underlying every existing verification framework.
L3–L5 safety certification implies scenario spaces of over one billion concrete tests. Exhaustive simulation is not merely expensive — it is structurally impossible. No budget, no datacenter, no timeline makes it feasible.
Every software update — classical or neural — resets the certification clock. SDVs evolve at software pace. Continuous re-verification is not optional; it is the new baseline. Point-in-time testing is structurally insufficient.
End-to-end neural systems like Wayve and Tesla FSD v12 are trained, not built. There is no code to audit — only weights. Regulators under EU AI Act, ISO 21448, and UN ECE WP.29 demand principled understanding of failure boundaries. “It learned from 10 billion miles” is not a safety case.
Engineers describe high-level test goals in natural language — safety, comfort, performance. OSCFuzzer converts them into precise Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas and autonomously explores the scenario space to pinpoint critical edge cases and hidden vulnerabilities.
OSCFuzzer “Plug & Fuzz” Architecture
Powered by intelligent fuzzing, optimization algorithms, and machine learning, OSCFuzzer autonomously explores the vast scenario space. Fully compatible with ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.x — plug directly into your existing simulation and testing pipelines.
Focus on what matters — not on coding exhaustive test scripts. Natural language to STL automatically.
Intelligently explores the most promising areas of the scenario space using hybrid optimization + ML.
Seamless plug-in into existing simulation pipelines via ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.x.
Decision trees, heatmaps, and causal clustering visualizations to interpret vulnerabilities quickly.
Every OEM understands simulation cost reduction. What sets OSCFuzzer apart is what it delivers as a byproduct of that search — engineering intelligence that no team could generate manually, regardless of experience or time.
Find the most critical safety violations in a fraction of the simulation budget. Benchmarked against UNECE Regulation No. 157, OSCFuzzer achieves >90% reduction in simulation volume — cutting CPU, GPU, cloud compute, and simulator licensing costs without sacrificing coverage.
This applies to classical ADAS controllers, AV planners, and E2E neural systems alike. And because safety critical OTA update resets the certification clock — for any software-defined vehicle — OSCFuzzer’s efficiency gain compounds with every update cycle, not just at initial certification.
Rules-based and hybrid systems benefit immediately. Find failure scenarios in hours, not months. Critical OTA updates require re-verification — OSCFuzzer makes that continuous cycle economically viable.
Each retraining cycle changes the model’s behavioral boundaries. OSCFuzzer treats the trained model as a system to be discovered — re-mapping failure boundaries after each update, turning a compliance nightmare into a managed workflow.
Existing tools require engineers to define the question first — select two attributes, specify a grid, run simulations, read a frontier. The engineer’s intuition bounds what the tool can find. OSCFuzzer inverts this.
As it searches for critical failures, it simultaneously maps the high-dimensional behavioral landscape of your system — autonomously surfacing which variables interact, and under which precise combinations of conditions those interactions become safety-critical. Not a grid you define in advance. A structure you did not know existed.
SDVs and AV systems involve a genuinely new class of complexity: Ego vehicle dynamics, pedestrian behavior, traffic density, weather, time of day, V2X connectivity, and roadside infrastructure — all interacting simultaneously, in combinations that have no historical precedent. No engineer, however experienced, can pre-enumerate what matters here. The design space is too large, too new, and too non-linear for intuition to navigate.
E2E systems introduce a fourth dimension: policy brittleness. In classical systems, you audit code. In E2E, there is no code — only a learned policy with catastrophic holes in specific feature combinations (low sun angle + specific road texture + cyclist, for example).
Illumination stress-tests the learned policy directly — mapping exactly where the neural network’s “intuition” fails. This is categorically different from attention maps, which show what the model perceives, not where its decision-making breaks down.
Continuous re-auditing after each retraining cycle turns Illumination from a one-time audit into a continuous service — providing OEMs with a Technical Passport that satisfies EU AI Act transparency requirements, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), and UN ECE WP.29 demands for principled understanding of failure boundaries.
Safety monitors only catch what they were designed to catch. Illumination works below the monitor layer — on the policy itself.
OSCFuzzer’s core technology powers two further applications for insurers and OEMs navigating the liability landscape of Level 3 automation.
Tempero’s Pay-As-Your-System-Drives platform gives insurers precise, dynamic underwriting factors based on real-world performance of connected and automated vehicles. Built on OSCFuzzer technology, CARE moves beyond static historical models by simulating rich combinations of driver behavior, driving conditions, automation features, and V2X connectivity.
Premiums aligned with actual safety performance of each policyholder’s vehicle and driving context.
Deeper insight into automation and driver factors to optimize underwriting.
Scenario libraries mapped to automated vehicle safety certification frameworks.
Risk scores update as vehicle software evolves — aligned with the safety critical OTA update cycle.
As the industry moves toward Level 3 automation, OEMs and insurers face a “Pandora’s box” of product-liability lawsuits. Causal Analysis applies counterfactual reasoning to raw event data — transforming telemetry and environment logs into modifiable structural equations that enable objective “what-if” analysis.
Causal Modeling & Accident Replay Framework
Transform high-risk AI incidents into clear, interpretable causal reports for legal defense.
“But-for” testing: determine if different system decisions would have prevented the incident.
High-fidelity digital twin reconstruction from multiple sensor perspectives.
Quantify influence of exogenous variables versus system actions to objectively ascribe accountability.
Not simulated benchmarks — validated against the actual test suites used for regulatory approval.
Addressing the “needle in a haystack” challenge of L3 certification. Tempero’s verification suite identified the only 2 critical safety cases out of over 40,000 valid scenarios — using a fraction of traditional computational resources.
Generated to explore the complete ALKS configuration space
Simulation scenarios identified within regulatory constraints
Using OSCFuzzer, Tempero conducted a detailed assessment of Automated Emergency Braking in two urban settings with varying traffic densities — demonstrating context-specific safety evaluation that global statistics cannot provide.
Setting td1 — AEB effective
Setting td2 — AEB limited
Unlike global IIHS statistics — results are tied to specific traffic and environmental conditions.
Assessment accounts for new mobility contexts including connected infrastructure
Tempero (Latin: “to temper” or “refrain”) reflects our core mission: to mitigate the risks of high-risk AI systems. We identified a structural gap in the AI landscape long before the EU AI Act was finalized—a gap between academic legal frameworks and the rigorous technical proof required to ensure cyber-physical safety.
Our founding team brings deep R&D backgrounds in Automated Reasoning, Formal Testing, and Constraint Solving, with previous roles at Microsoft Research and leading autonomous systems institutes. We didn’t just build a tool for cars; we built a framework to translate high-level regulatory theory into executable safety evidence for AI decision-making in the physical world.
While our vision is broad, our execution is strategic. We prioritize Automotive SDVs today to leverage mature standards like OpenSCENARIO and meet the urgent global demand for scalable, certified safety.