Automotive safety evaluation is about to undergo a major transition.

Each country’s NCAP is promoting the introduction of virtual testing (VT) in addition to real-world vehicle testing to ensure real-world crash safety robustness,
The accuracy of CAE will have a significant impact on safety assessment itself. In order to respond to such changes in the environment, it is necessary to have a common understanding and to cooperate from the viewpoint of CAE technology.

As for the use of generative AI in car manufacturing, the latest generative AI is being used, including aerodynamic surrogate AI models that speed up aerodynamic simulation, which is essential for car manufacturing, by tens of thousands of times, and design generation AI and design evaluation AI models that will revolutionize the design process as a designer’s brush. Applications from the Nissan Research Institute perspective in design process innovation are emerging.

In addition, as various technologies and services utilizing generative AI have been proposed and released, we expect that generative AI will be introduced to each tool in the future to significantly improve the accuracy and speed of each development process in terms of the direction in which generative AI will be utilized for car manufacturing.