The global automotive market is experiencing exponential growth projections of $541.73 billion by 2025 – CAGR of 16.4% - forecast period 2019-2025.  The main contributions are toward connected vehicles, smart traffic management systems, autonomous vehicles, infotainment applications, real-time

vehicle tracking systems and vehicle road safety solutions.  [1]

Currently, connected vehicles (Figure 1) are given prime importance for their ability to offer safety and comfort to passengers by enabling connectivity.  In addition, vehicle run-time efficiency and overall functioning is greatly improved through several implanted sensors and internet connection.  [2] There were an estimated 1.35 million deaths due to vehicle crashes across the world in 2016.  So, a main driving force of connected cars is avoiding road accidents and thereby promoting road safety.  [3]

In addition, as experts have quoted, autonomous driving (Figure 2) has become increasingly popular,and estimates project a substantial market surge in Level 2 and Level 3 vehicles in correspondence with partial and conditional automation, respectively.  [4]