Your Tesla has a 60 GHz RADAR pointed at your face.
Not for driving or autopilot.
For "cabin monitoring"
Texas Instruments IWR6843AOP chip.
60-64 GHz millimeter wave. mounted above the rearview mirror. beaming down into the cabin.
Detecting your breathing, your heart rate, whether a child is in the back seat.
Sounds helpful until you understand what 60 GHz millimeter waves actually do to biology.
60 GHz penetrates roughly 0.4 mm into skin.
shallow enough for the industry to call "safe"
But your skin is the largest organ in your body. packed with Nerve endings, Merkel cells, melanocytes.
Soviet-era research documented non-thermal biological effects of mmWaves at low power densities.. effects the FCC has never evaluated.
and nobody has studied what happens when this signal runs continuously for 10-hour drives, week after week, year after year.
This cabin RADAR was installed in late 2021 but never activated.
Left dormant for over 3 years.
February 2025, software update 2025.2.6 quietly turned it on.
no opt-out or announcement.
just switched on.
and it doesn't turn off.
it runs while you drive. while you're parked. while you're charging. while your kids sit in the back seat on a 10-hour road trip. continuous millimeter wave exposure at close range.. 0.4 to 2 meters from your body.
That's not a cell tower 200 meters away. that's a RADAR transmitter inside a sealed metal box with you.
a Faraday cage works both ways. the metal body of the car that blocks outside signals also TRAPS the ones generated inside. every RF source in that cabin bounces off the roof, the doors, the floor.. back into you.
and the cabin RADAR is just one layer.
a Tesla Model S Plaid has 46 antennas.
— LTE cellular: 700-2600 MHz, 2x2 MIMO, always on
— WiFi: 2.4 + 5 GHz, dual band
— Bluetooth: 2.4 GHz, always scanning for your phone key
— UWB ultra-wideband: 6-8 GHz, phone-as-key
— GPS: 1.2-1.6 GHz
— Satellite radio: 2.3 GHz
— Cabin RADAR: 60-64 GHz
LTE, Bluetooth and cabin RADAR are essentially ALWAYS transmitting.
A 2025 study on the Tesla Model Y took 952 EMF measurements across SuperCharging, standard charging, high-speed driving, urban and idle states.
They found:
1/ Peak ELF emissions during SuperCharging, especially near center console and rear seats
2/RF hotspots from LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth in the sub-6 GHz range
3/ Body voltage INCREASED during SuperCharging and high-speed driving
4/ EMF varied dramatically depending on where you sit in the cabin
FCC safety limits are from 1996.
Based on animal studies measuring only THERMAL effects for less than 1 hour. no non-thermal biological effects considered. no study has EVER examined chronic simultaneous exposure to ELF + LTE + WiFi + Bluetooth + 60 GHz mmWave + UWB in a sealed metal cabin.
NOT ONCE.
In 2021, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the FCC's refusal to update these limits was "arbitrary and capricious." they still haven't changed them.
Martin Pall's model calculates that VGCCs amplify EMF forces by 7.2 million times at the cellular level. that calcium flooding triggers peroxynitrite formation, PARP activation, NAD+ depletion.. your repair machinery eating itself.
You're sitting in a metal box with 40+ antennas, a millimeter-wave RADAR pointed at your chest and AC magnetic fields from a battery pack under your seat pulling hundreds of kilowatts during charging.
and the safety standard says it's fine because your skin didn't get warm.
Diabolical.
