"Stimulated from the recently regional automotive growth, the automobile industry have implemented optical communications as a fast, reliable and inexpensive data communication system. Automobile networks requires a flexible medium of transmission that can support high data rates at low costs. Plastic optical fibers (POFs) are suitable for this purpose. This work exposes several termination methods used for plastic optical fibers, orientated to heating methods. Methods as hot blade cleaving, increase of the fiber’s temperature and hot plate are presented. The objective of these terminations methods is to reduce the losses originated from the POF end face surface, thus achieving an efficient, low attenuation POF cable. The usage of POFs in automobile network systems is reviewed. Finally, a comparison between typical termination techniques, as polishing, and heating methods is realized. The results obtained could serve as a scope for a future POF cable automation process."