THE

exterior car aerial will be extinct within a dozen years, a new report predicts today.

It is set to join the cassette player, CD player, eight-track cartridges and many other devices as redundant as drivers switch to streaming music and news into ‘connected’ computer-onwheels cars, either directly or via their smartphones.

Even the aerodynamic lowlying ‘shark-fin’ roof aerials which replaced compact and telescopic aerials will become a distant memory, says the study by Nissan.