Electronics in cars

The application of electronics to motor cars potentially offers a variety of advantages - improved safety, performance, reliability, convenience and cost, or some combination of these. That these advantages are already being realised is indicated by the fact that, in America, the car-electronics market (excluding car radios) in 1967-68 was about $1 per car and at that time was predicted to be $7 per car in 1970 and $18 per car in 1972. The present indications are that these estimates are probably too low.