Tim Stevens

AI can be a huge help for these companies, both in terms of tracking issues, in terms of updating patches, in terms of making sure that all that software is up to date.

That's something that, again, most organizations are really struggling to build into and build a solid software house around.

So AI, I think, can be a big help there, both in terms of testing and also in terms of deploying these updates.

So I think that there will be help on that side of things.

But ultimately, it's not going to help you pass your MPG requirements or your crash testing if you don't have that stuff nailed down in the beginning.

That's a good metaphor for a lot of things right now.

Most people are trying to make cars not drive into walls more often using AI.

But for sure, we should make sure that it still can survive if it does so.

Exactly.

It could make cars more affordable, for one thing.

You know, if you can pull a lot of that development effort out, you can drop the R&D cost down quite a bit.

And, you know, we're talking about buying a lot of metal, a lot of circuitry, a lot of components when you're buying cars, but you're also paying off that R&D effort, which went into the development of that.

So theoretically, we could see reduced cost, which is great.

But I think ultimately, the big thing is we'll see manufacturers able to keep up with the incredibly fast-paced change of business right now globally, you know.

We're seeing changes in tariff structures every day.

Practically, at this point, we're seeing global strife that's causing a lot of issues when it comes to production management, supply chain, that kind of thing.

Things are a lot more complicated than they were five years ago.

So ultimately, I think we'll see manufacturers being able to bring cars to market that are the cars that people actually want to buy much more quickly.

They'll be closer to the trends in the market, which are slinging up and down much more rapidly than before.

And so we'll see cars that are what people want, which I think is great.