Autonomous driving safety is in the development stage. Whether on the highway or in a multi-story parking garage, highly automated driving features must perform safely and reliably in all situations. Parallel systems monitor the environment and determine what to do in key conditions. This is called redundancy and is one of the ways developers from Porsche Engineering ensure safety in autonomous driving applications. The cargo of a truck in front of us is lost.

Porsche uses artificial intelligence (AI) in vehicle development to make drive systems even more efficient and sustainable and to further optimize development processes. AI gives computers the ability to analyze problems and solve them automatically--much like a human being. This potential is being exploited in powertrain development, both in the field of e-mobility and in the internal combustion engine as a traditional domain of mechanical engineering. In the development of traditional combustion engines, for example, AI solves the problem of predicting the gas content in the engine oil. Since high gas content leads to oil foaming and thus to reduced lubricity, the oil system must be designed for the lowest possible gas content.

Porsche has outlined how it is using artificial intelligence (AI) in vehicle development to make drive systems even more efficient and sustainable and to further optimize development processes. In the development of traditional combustion engines, for example, AI is being used to solve the problem of predicting the gas content in the engine oil. Since high gas content leads to oil foaming and thus to reduced lubricity, the oil system must be designed for the lowest possible gas content. However, measurements can hardly be carried out in the vehicle with the engine running. Porsche states that a new AI process is able to provide reliable forecasts of the gas content in the engine oil.