Cars have long been regarded as new inventions, but despite that the incorporation of various types of technology has played a role in putting them in the next category. Modern cars come loaded with a variety of technological features including an average of 200 sensors that collect data to help them perform better than they otherwise would.With all of that said and now out of the way, it’s important to note that this ends up creating a lot of data that can put a strain on the world wide web. Companies in the business of manufacturing these connected cars plan to upload anywhere from 50% to 70% of the data they collect directly to the Internet.
It is predicted that this could cause the amount of data going online to increase a thousand times when all things are considered and taken into account. The total amount of data will be more than 10 exabytes, which is related to the fact that this is the kind of thing that could end up breaking the Internet and its surrounding and related infrastructure.
Each car driven regularly can end up generating hundreds of terabytes of data. The question here is where will all this data be stored? The current maximum storage capacity is active and the same is about 8 zettabytes.
At the predicted data collection rate, this entire capacity could be exhausted in 2.2 years. Although there are plans to increase this upper limit to 16 zettabytes, that would only buy a few years before things start to get dangerous.
Car manufacturers will have to figure out how to deal with this issue. The Internet is a necessary service, and it needs to remain constant otherwise the entire world could begin to suffer a series of catastrophic events that could compound on each other.
H/T: Visualcapitalist
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