Stakeholders of the traditional automotive industry & beyond are ramping up their efforts to release increasingly connected vehicles. The list of 44 companies working on autonomous vehicles that CB Insights has recently published highlights that this is a highly collaborative approach between players with different business goals, products and user groups - plus different technology stacks. The different players share at least two similarities: The dream of autonomous driving and the need to collaborate in order to make that a reality. Data transformation is a key component to ensure interoperability.