THE Newest Vehicle for Code has 4-Wheel Drive

If you think you can't operate mobile CW unless you have a radio and unless you also know the Code, think again. Some automobiles on the market are making mobile CW operating easier than ever. Almost effortless, in fact.

It seems that in the last few years, operating mobile CW hasn't even required an amateur radio license.If you look at the carmakers who have embraced Morse Code as an automotive design element. In the summer of 2022, models of Jeep vehicles featured the "dit" and the "dah" across the front grille. Jeep's Dubai-based ad agency, Publicis [pub luh siss] Dubai, explained that by sporting these CW symbols upfront, Jeep owners could feel a sense of community and a spirit of adventure in remote, off-road places. This bold gesture followed a more subtle use of CW by the same carmaker four years earlier: the 2018 Jeep Compass featured Code on the driver's left footrest in a message spelling out "sand snow rivers rocks," all familiar Jeep uncharted terrain. Not to be left behind in the off-road dust, 

Hyundai has recently put four illuminated "dits" on its steering wheel - CW for the letter "H." The Code began appearing in new models such as the Santa Fe, the Kona and Hyundai's electric SUV, the Ioniq [EYE-YONNICK]. Now the Toyota Tacoma is getting into the traffic jam: This year's SUV has Morse Code symbols appear on a side panel of the dashboard. The code provides directions to a way in which car owners can find plans to build their own 3-D printed automotive accessories.

So far as we know, those instructions still don't include the most necessary element - printing a ham radio license for mobile CW operation. Drivers will still have to earn that the old-fashioned way.
Source - ARNewsline - https://www.arnewsline.org/