Internet of Things: Bringing connected cars to life

Advances in the development of autonomous vehicles—also known as driverless cars, robot cars or self-driving cars—are happening at a blistering pace. American tech entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO at Tesla, Elon Musk, asserts that his company’s vehicles will have “full self-driving” capability by the end of 2020. Closer home, the British carmaker MG Motor has brought to the roads the Hector, India’s first internet car with 50-plus connected features. The Hector also gets a 10.4-inch infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay support, automatic climate control, cruise control, coloured MID, full LED lighting all around, and much more.

Frankly, the four-wheeler is in the midst of a major transformation, where technology and data has taken over. The journey for connected cars — those that can connect to devices inside and outside, even those at home—has already started. Again, latest car models sport in-built GPS.