Look at this 1971 BBC report about “Radio Del Car del del Future”

The next time you turn on your elegant entertainment system in the car, consider this speaker Bi -bi -x that in 1971 he was sent to report a gadget based on automobile It was at that time at the forefront of innovation.

Bi -Bi -Si recently shared an amazingly nostalgic segment Tomorrow’s worldA popular technological program that has been broadcast in the UK for almost four decades until 2003.

This article is devoted to the Radio of the Car of the Future, although when you see the device and understand where we are now in the audio team, the “future” in this case seems to be spreading to about 1975.

Speaking with a balance, the leading William Wollard praises an innovative automobile radio (good, innovative So) for its compact size, which allows you to place it in the upper part of the board. The absence of switches and handles is also noteworthy, with sensitive controls that allow you to find stations with a simple touch.

Woolard notes how, with a small pulsation of one of its buttons, the device is automatically configured with the strongest signal, which eliminates the need to tune again during driving. For a moment, he simply ignores a small problem of the impossibility of really choosing the station you want to hear.

The radio also included technologies that allowed emergency reports and traffic reports and Warning about the weather They were quickly handed over to the motorist (this is where Waze got this idea!), Automatically turning the radio to deliver the report if he left at that time.

Wlard, obviously, loves the gadget, commenting on: “He was not developed for high loyalty enthusiasts, but when you think about the type of sound, and the quality of the design, he will even satisfy the most highlighted critic.”

And he adds: “For the middle driver, the most important thing is the quality of the hearing that gives, and all you need to do is to pay about £ 100 (about 1800 pounds/2340 dollars today), and you can buy a magic carpet of continuous music to skip all these traffic jams.”

It is not clear what happened to this specific radio of the future.