Overview
- Euro NCAP’s top honor follows testing of 49 models, with the CLA achieving a five-star rating using standard equipment.
- NVIDIA’s DRIVE AV uses a dual-stack design pairing an end-to-end AI system with a parallel classical safety stack for redundancy across sensing, planning and execution.
- The CLA is built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion with sensor diversity, hardware redundancy and the Halos safety framework guiding processes and validation.
- Third-party validations include TÜV SÜD certification of NVIDIA’s ISO 21434 cybersecurity processes, DriveOS 6.0 conformity to ISO 26262 ASIL D, and a UNECE safety assessment completed by TÜV Rheinland.
- NVIDIA’s Alpamayo AI models and large-scale cloud-to-car simulation target rare long-tail scenarios to strengthen real-world driver assistance performance.