The Intertwining of AI and Simulation in Automotive Design

Simulation has been a key technology of the automotive industry for many decades. Predictive simulations enable engineers and designers to understand how parts of a vehicle, or even entire vehicles, will operate under a multitude of conditions before ever building them physically. This has proven especially useful in the cases of complex issues such as external aerodynamic wind tunnel or crashworthiness tests. Why expend time and physical resources performing these difficult assessments when they can be completed much faster virtually?