Wendy's or McDonald's? Your connected car knows what you like.

The day when self-driving cars dominate the world's highways is still years away, experts agree, but that hasn't discouraged a crowded field of established automakers and startups from spending billions of dollars on the journey to making autonomous vehicles an everyday reality. The futuristic end goal is to allow riders to get in their car, tell their voice assistant where they're going, and go there without the pesky problem of paying attention to steering and navigating. While we're getting to that goal, automakers are gradually adding trusted self-driving features like lane assist and parking assist. At the same time, automobiles are becoming more and more connected. A 2017 study from McKinsey suggested that cars are now sending up to 25 gigabytes of data into the cloud every hour.