With a traditional power tailgate and trunk, users need to hold down a button on the key fob to activate the hatch. This can cause great inconvenience, especially when the user is trying to open the trunk while carrying multiple shopping bags. If you use a hands-free system such as a kick to open the tailgate, you only need to make a simple kick to open the trunk of the car.

Many cars equipped with kick-open systems utilize capacitive or ultrasonic sensors to detect kick motion, but these sensors face some unique challenges. Learn how to achieve highly accurate kick gesture detection with radar technology such as Texas Instruments’ millimeter wave radar sensors.