Vehicle virtualization

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – 8 January 2026 – Every legacy automaker faces the same painful truth: the biggest delays and cost overruns rarely come from writing software. They come from discovering – far too late – how systems actually interact across domains, hardware, and software. When multi-ECU features, central compute logic, and HMI flows finally meet on hardware – often 12–18 months before SOP – teams enter “integration hell,” losing predictability, momentum, and control. At CES 2026, RemotiveLabs shows that this cycle is no longer inevitable.

Replaying real vehicle data inside a virtual setup is one of the fastest ways to understand system behaviour - and to test ideas long before hardware is available. With playback in RemotiveTopology, you can load CAN logs, CSV recordings, and synchronised video, then “drive” a virtual vehicle using signals captured from the road. It’s an easy and intuitive way to explore open-loop lightweight vehicle simulation and bring your existing datasets directly into your workflow.

Audiokinetic + RemotiveLabs: A new collaboration that lets sound designers create interactive and immersive automotive audio experiences directly from real vehicle data instead of relying on manual controls or incomplete and inaccurate simulations. This enables rapid and efficient design of highly customizable and personalizable audio UX that needs little additional tuning when integrated in real vehicle production environments. Featuring insights from François Thibault, Head of Automotive Engineering at Audiokinetic.

Get up and running with RemotiveTopology in minutes. This guide walks you through installing our tools, cloning our open-source examples, to running and visualizing a minimal virtual vehicle platform - all supported by two short onboarding videos.

Insights from Robert Fey, Synopsys: With more than 15 years in automotive test and verification, Robert “Mr. Broken Testing” Fey has seen firsthand why modern vehicle software is so complex to test - and what the consequences are when teams can’t keep pace. His proposal? Shift focus to behavioural intent: a clear, shared description of expected system behaviour that stays stable even when code, architecture, or organisation around it changes.

Incari x RemotiveLabs: The automotive industry’s biggest hurdle isn’t a lack of imagination - it’s fragmentation. Designers, engineers, and software developers often work in parallel silos, using different tools and workflows. By combining Incari’s design driven philosophy with RemotiveLabs’ engineering-first platform, teams could finally work from a single source of truth, closing the loop between creativity and technical validation.