A first-of-its-kind driving simulator offers young drivers a chance to test their skills before getting behind the wheel of a real car.

Open sourcing its self-driving car simulator is an extension of this existing open approach, but one that provides even more base-level tools to the community working on this big, complex problem.

Autonomous vehicle simulators are improving to the point that self-driving car companies are starting to use them not just for testing, but to train new machine learning models.