Data is the New Oil in the Future of Automated Driving Intel Newsroom

The world of today runs on oil – heating and cooling our homes, and powering almost all forms of transportation. Try and drive a car today without oil-based products, and you won't get far. Without oil, a car engine overheats, pistons and rings fuse to the cylinder walls, the engine block cracks and, of course, there is no gas. You could say oil is the key technology that allowed the automotive world we know today. But that's all about to change.