To improve road safety and to help build the infrastructure for self driving cars,government and private companies are coming together to build connected-car platforms. The Utah government has partnered with Panasonic on the smart road network. They will be working on installing sensors on road. These will collect and transmit data that will alert vehicles,staff and control traffic signal as well. CIRRUS,an IoT application program is the data platform used that assists data sharing among transport departments,network operations and vehicle information systems using V2X as a data source. This emerging technology will make roads safer and less congested.Carmakers too are working on the connected car network to incorporate them into their self driving cars. The market for vehicle connectivity is predicted to be huge. Read more at: https://www.aitrends.com/selfdrivingcars/connected-car-platforms-making-headway-microsoft-taking-a-lead-role/