Guest commentary: Cross-industry collaboration will transform automotive


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As such, there is an ever-increasing need to leverage lessons from consumer electronics, along with adjacent industries, including battery management, networking, data storage, semiconductors and software. Taking another page from the consumer electronics playbook, automotive titans and EV newcomers must understand how software will define and deliver driving experiences. A critical lesson the automotive industry can impart on its consumer electronics counterparts is that quality and safety go hand in hand, and therefore must be addressed together. It's good news that more automotive companies are exploring accelerated life testing, which is used throughout the electronics industry. Digital twins — virtual representations of people, places and things — enable companies to discover, develop and deploy products in the virtual world before venturing into the physical one.