Modern digital broadcasting technologies such as Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) can combine audio with text, images like maps and data.
This makes digital broadcast radio particularly relevant to the connected car: broadcast and IP technologies can complement one another rather than one replacing the other.
India demonstrates that digital radio in cars is already a mass-market technology and provides an important example of what has already been achieved.
Almost 14 million cars on Indian roads are equipped with DRM digital radio receivers, following the introduction of factory-fitted DRM receivers.
In Europe, there are similar calls for EU rules to ensure that broadcast radio reception remains available in new vehicles.