Visteon Corporation enhancing its DriveCore Studio™ autonomous driving development environment through software from Microsoft Corp. that maximizes the power and scalability of the cloud. DriveCore Studio™ part of Visteon’s DriveCore™ autonomous driving platform now allows developers to tap into Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft’s global, hyper-scale intelligent cloud, to develop, test and validate algorithms. With global coverage from data center regions worldwide, the Microsoft solution brings highly scalable levels of processing power to DriveCore Studio™, allowing automakers and developers to securely meet the computing demands of Level 3-plus autonomous systems. DriveCore™ was designed as a complete technology platform, consisting of the hardware, in-vehicle middleware and PC-based software toolset needed to develop machine learning algorithms for autonomous driving applications of Level 3 and above. A cloud-based development environment, DriveCore Studio™ enables automakers and partners to create and support an ecosystem of algorithm developers, unlocking innovation potential through an open framework for developing algorithms using sensor-based artificial intelligence. It allows easy integration of third-party algorithms and access to real-life sensor data complemented by a simulation, validation and benchmarking environment for perception algorithms for object detection and feature-based path planning.