BBC News quoted Paul Burnley, Senior ITS and Telematics Analyst at SBD following his presentation at the Future World Sympoisum, a conference organised by the UK's National Microelectronics Institute.
Paul Burnley, an analyst from automotive market research firm SBD, said cars in the future would be among the first to react after a crash. They might send data about their location and the number of occupants in a car to get the emergency services responding much more quickly.
"More advanced systems will be capable of sending data from distributed sensors in the car to the emergency services," he said.
"Perhaps letting them analyse this and build a profile of the crash and evaluate the risk of serious injury to the occupants."
Clever in-car systems would be essential as the world moves from petrol-driven cars to hybrid and electric vehicles, he said.
"The 'hop in the car and drive where you want' mentality is not one we can carry forward to electric vehicles," he said. "Fears about range anxiety and charging infrastructure are starting to dominate discussions about such vehicles."
Only with sensors that can accurately determine the distance a car can travel given the charge in its batteries and know the location of the nearest charging station, will the move to electric vehicles be more palatable, he said.
Below is Paul Burnley's presentation in full. To receive a copy of the presentation with notes, then please contact Juanita Appleby on jappleby@sbd.co.uk