If your car has 4G or a data connection, you could be one step closer to having a self-driving car.
Slowly but surely, we're inching closer to our visions of a Jetsonian future: An automotive giant is now using connected cars to crowdsource information on dangerous road conditions. Inrix, one of the world's leading providers of traffic data, has created a product called Road Weather, which aggregates data from a car's GPS location, brake sensors, fog lights, and thermometers inside Internet-connected cars, and combines them with publicly available weather and climate information.