Blacksburg, Virginia-based Torc Robotics has officially announced that it is developing a “complete self-driving system for consumer automobiles.”

The autonomous vehicle technology company, which is a level 4 company in terms of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) levels of automated driving, says that vehicles equipped with its self-driving technology, including its end-to-end software stack, can make complex decisions in real life scenarios on the road.

“We’re offering automotive companies a fully autonomous solution that can be implemented in real consumer cars,” says Torc co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Fleming.

“We’ll also work with them to implement the technology into existing systems.”

Torc has equipped two Lexus RX vehicles with its technology. After thorough testing, the cars have been operating on public roads, in a variety of weather conditions, since February of this year.

In April, one of those vehicles drove autonomously for more than 1,000 miles during a round trip drive from the company’s headquarters in Virginia to the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, the birthplace of the vehicle regarded as the first affordable automobile, the Model T.

Back in 2007, a Torc Robotics vehicle placed third in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge.

A lot of members of the winning teams from that competition joined Google’s autonomous driving project, but Torc managed to retain much of its talent, and since then, the company has grown in size, and continued to develop its technology, which can be used for a variety of commercial ground vehicles.

“While a lot of startups may have interesting pieces of technology, we have a decade of experience delivering an end-to-end solution that actually works,” says Torc Chief Technology Officer Ben Hastings.

Flemings adds, “we’ve been working on our technology for more than 10 years and we are thrilled that the auto industry is finally ready for self-driving cars. Torc can provide the engineering expertise and proven technology to make self-driving cars a reality.”