This is a Technicom podcast.

Every day, we get behind the wheel and rely on our cars to safely take us to wherever we want to go.

Our cars are an amalgam of decades of best practices intertwined with the latest technology.

And from this, we get the modern automobile, which is undoubtedly right now at the pinnacle of auto safety.

But what's next?

Where do we go from here and what will it take to get there?

I'm Peter Ballant from Technicon and today we look at the Car 2 Terra project.

When you look to the future of automobiles, what do you see?

If you said autonomous driving, you would be in the majority.

While we can all see the benefits of the partially or fully autonomous vehicles, the amount

of research on the topic which is happening at this moment,

is absolutely astounding. And it's mostly in the name of safety. Imagine, for example,

an in-cabin radar sensor which knows what each passenger is doing at any given time, sleeping,

reading, upright, or reclined.

Using these instantaneous data points, the car's computer can decide the most effective sequence

of airbag deployment in case of collision.

The speed at which this happens is the business of Car Tutera.

As you can imagine, it's got to be fast.

Exploring subterahertz frequencies and lightning fast communications are a few of the goals in this project.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jonas Hansred and Yin Yang Li from project partner Erickson in Sweden,

which of course is a global provider of ICT equipment and services.

And as it turns out, our automobiles are quickly becoming complex communication centers on wheels.

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