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March 13, 2026

Driving the Code: Where the Rubber Meets the Software-Defined Road

by Amelia Dalton

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we’re casting our line into one of the most transformative shifts happening in the automotive industry today: the rise of  software-defined systems!  Nitish Rao from MathWorks and I take a closer look at which vehicle functions are best handled by AI-driven systems, and which still depend on the reliability of traditional control software and how virtual ECUs and digital twins enable simulation and validation before real hardware. We also discuss a question many engineers are asking: can software and AI actually reduce hardware costs?

 

 

 

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