On the way to having more connected and autonomous vehicles on the streets, the automotive ecosystem faces tremendous challenges during the entire vehicle development phase. Safety, homologation, costs, time to market, and software over-the-air update are some of the problems engineers must overcome.

In this panel discussion, we will debate the use of systems engineering methodology, virtual testing and simulation to enforce end-to-end traceability, replace physical tests with virtual tests and finally ensure a digital thread from operational design domain definition to final certification, which can be systematically reused for any vehicle software update.

Model-Based System Engineering, virtual testing, sensor simulation, and the increased importance of virtual testing in the consumer ratings and certification will be topics of interest.