Is India Prepared For Autonomous Cars?

[Akash1886]

Friends,

Change and Enhancement in every field is the only thing that is constant. Our automotive industry is truly gigantic and we have some of the best brands catering to the people here. From ultra luxury cars to pocket friendly cars we have it all on our roads. We have AT, MT and AMT equipped cars. We have Hybrids and Diesel & Petrol run cars. Now, with such a massive industry, do you feel its safe to introduce autonomous technology in India? Will it be safe to test autonomous cars on our roads? Are the buyers ready for it? Above all, Is the Indian Infrastructure ready to welcome / accept such technology? Lastly, Which is that one Indian car that you wish to see with autonomous technology?

Would love to hear your views on the same buddies!

Regards

Akash

 

[allhyundaicars]

The first word that came to my mind "lol"
Are indians ready to face another indians on road. Anyways a good thought but india is much behind in this scenario. Around 10 years atleast.

 

[kasscon]

I dont think that we are ready for the tech.

In india where Bullet train is still a question. Red lights are not synchronised properly and even electric/hybrid vehicles are not introduced properly and we are talking about Driver less car. What about roads and infrastructure required for this tech.

Still want to test the car, test it in Chandni chowk

 

[chevrolet]

India is an immature car market and a country with no road manners

India cannot get fully automated cars ,but can get semi automated ones which can run on highways only that too after 5- 10 years.

These cars will need special indian upgrades in their software. These cars should be able to deal with the highway manners but will find it difficult to deal with city traffic. Kind of a smart cruise control with control over the steering too. It can navigate using inbuilt maps,gps,inbuilt radar, sonar and any relevant hardware.

S class should/will be the first car.
Ind infra is not even able to give us safe roads to do a 80kmph, we get potholes,hydroplaning etc.
There are showoffs who will buy any new tech, but pricing will be difficult. The rich showoffs will buy for sure.
It is unsafe for the ''autonomous test vehicle'' to survive in our roads
we have not yet become a proper fully automatic geared cars market,so i will say mass market is not ready to buy a automated car.

 

[rselva]

If you put an autonomous car in Indian traffic, it will just stay there in place ! All the sensors and radar feedback will be confusing to the algorithm and it will just shut down!

 

[amitpshelke]

If it works in INDIA, it will work in any part of the world and on any terrain too.

 

[TSIVipul]

Consider this situation:
Empty highway and the autonomous car starts building up speed, suddenly out of nowhere a biker appears and he expects the car to defy the rules of physics; he is dead for sure next moment and so is your happiness, comfort of autonomous car and you career.

 

[chevrolet]

Consider this situation:
Empty highway and the autonomous car starts building up speed, suddenly out of nowhere a biker appears and he expects the car to defy the rules of physics; he is dead for sure next moment and so is your happiness, comfort of autonomous car and you career.

Tsi vipul,
The radar should predict such ''hostile''elements. But bikes jumping through the median vegetation or other things that block radar will be a problem.

The roads too should have sensors which can communicate with the car.

 

[Viru]

These cars will need special indian upgrades in their software. These cars should be able to deal with the highway manners but will find it difficult to deal with city traffic. Kind of a smart cruise control with control over the steering too. It can navigate using inbuilt maps,gps,inbuilt radar, sonar and any relevant hardware.

This exists in quite a few premium vehicles already (Including the S Class, you mentioned) and seems to cope somewhat on the newer highways in our network. There is hope!

Also, did you say SONAR? AFAIK that's for underwater use. You may have meant ultrasonic.

 

[Godfather]

Certainly not for next 25-30 years. Let's hope full autonomous cars in India by 2050.

However I believe, semi autonomous features like assisted parking, highway control, emergency braking etc could gain more traction in next 5-10 years.

 

[generalmax]

Don't get me wrong, let us have roads first.. An algorithm runs the driver less car. Any algorithm may require a set of rules. A road needs to be defined. Where are the roads in India? The saddest part is that people do not value roads, and do not care roads to be made. The pseudo development fellows will bark about metro for public travel. All metros are built on roads, in effect squeezing out what is left of the roads. Add to that the near to nil driving sense of public transport drivers ,creates the jams.
In to this you add a self autonomous car, it will be dead within 10 minutes.

 

[kasscon]

I got a different point here from my uncle. He said that it will be success in metros and big cities as traffic is increasing day by day and driving is now becoming so difficult and now Indians adapting automatics(AMT & CVT) pretty soon people would love to be driven in autonomous cars however he said Nano/alto kind of car can be a success as the cost will be low and people can own two cars one for highway and one for city runabout(autonomous car).

 

[amitpshelke]

Imagine, If the technology would have been very popular in 2002, guess Salman Khan would have said that the car was driving on its own. Catch the Maker of car and punish him...

[Part of JOKE]

 

[puneetugru]

I think we've to ask the question other way round "ARE AUTONOMOUS CARS READY TO HANDLE INDIA & INDIAN TRAFFIC ?"
We've crazy traffic conditions, puzzling roads having speed breakers which come out of nowhere and no reason, people changing lanes and minimum vehicle distance b/w two vehicles.
But surely Indian road & Indian road behaviours will be the BEST testing ground for any autonomous system.

P.S: Any autonomous system which doesn't crash/cry/give up on Indian Traffic can work anywhere in the world.