Predictive data prefetching for connected vehicles

A computer program product for receiving data at a vehicle having control circuitry configured to wirelessly couple a processor system of the vehicle to a network, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions readable by the processor system to cause the processor system to perform a method comprising:
• determining a route that is expected to be traveled by the vehicle;
• determining a portion of the route that includes a buffering zone, wherein the buffering zone comprises an area in which the strength of signals transmitted over the network meets a predetermined criterion;
• and
• based at least in part on a determination that the vehicle is within the buffering zone, pre-fetching data from a source over the network.