Disrupt: Can China stop our cars?

Its software runs in vehicles from tanks to Maserati. In the podcast, Applied Intuition founder Peter Ludwig talks about the car of the future and the risks of connected vehicles.

Peter Ludwig wants to make a billion machines more intelligent - cars, trucks, tractors, satellites, robots. His start-up Applied Intuition, based in Silicon Valley, already supplies software and AI to car manufacturers such as Stellantis. Company valuation: $15 billion.

For this episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt, Larissa Holzki met the son and grandson of General Motors engineers at the Industrial Future Summit in Stockholm. The two talked about the spread of robo-taxis, the use of AI agents in training autonomous cars and the security risks associated with connected vehicles.

Could a political opponent stop all the cars on the road? “It’s technically possible,” says Ludwig. And: “It has never been easier to hack software systems.”