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The A.I. Transforming How Cars Are Designed, Engineered and Driven

From McLaren's enhanced engineering to smart seats in consumer vehicles, artificial intelligence is remaking the automotive experience at the track and in our homes.

The expectation that artificial intelligence will soon invade every aspect of modern life is cliché by now, but that world-altering technology found its way into the automotive world ahead of schedule. From voice recognition to satellite navigation, more rudimentary forms of A.I. became part of the driving experience more than a decade ago. Those functions are programmed responses to instructions or other human input. Such systems understand commands and do as ordered. This era’s developing A.I. thinks and seeks to understand, inform, predict and enhance human functioning.

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To that end, the A.I. being incorporated into the vehicles of 2026 is evolving faster than it can be applied, inspiring a variety of opinions on where it’s all headed and how the technology can be used. From an automaker’s perspective, McLaren’s production of elite supercars and its management of a globally competitive Formula 1 racing team demand the inclusion of the most cutting-edge A.I. abilities. According to Christoph Meyer, the automaker’s chief programme officer, McLaren’s A.I. story is focused on the huge efficiencies it can create in the design and engineering........

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