AJ Williams brings us more from the 13th annual High Plains Conference. There's more to talk about than the weather when a bunch of meteorologists and researchers enter a room. These men and women are some of the best in their field and they're in North Platte to talk shop at the High Plains Conference at North Platte Community College. We rotate this conference, so every four years we get it here in North Platte. And we really keep it in the high plains region to really understand more about the hard topics we have to deal with here. One of the topics include better technology for passenger vehicles that tell the weather and give advance warning of potentially dangerous driving hazards. We're working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research on a project where we take measurements from your vehicle on what's going on with the weather conditions where you're at, and then combine that with the more traditional things like the radar, and then provide you with that information so you will know things like say, the cars 5 miles ahead are reporting icy conditions, and you might want to take the next exit because that seems to be a safer more accessible road. The program is in its infancy and is a federally funded program through the Department of Transportation. NCAR is the weather lead for the research. Drobot says coming to conferences like this one, help them to give and receive the latest ideas and trends when it comes to reporting and forecasting weather. It's an opportunity to talk to the weather service about what we're doing and get some partnerships with them because a lot of times we find that we can improve our weather models if we have better observations. And what better way to get observations than with all the vehicles that are traveling out there on the road the whole idea is to improve the safety and mobility and efficiency of your vehicle. And so the car we drive ten to twenty years from now will bear not a lot of resemblance to the the car we drive today, which is pretty amazing..