New Delhi, Nov 6 (PTI) Driverless cars are necessary forcountries like India that have high accident rate, saidCarnegie Melon fellow and former entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa.
However, he also cautioned that such technologies wouldstruggle here initially because of the inadequate roadinfrastructure.
"Driverless cars would have fewer accidents and theelectric cars would start and they would have less pollution.
India desperately needs that because traffic is in such amess," said Wadhwa.
Over its future implementation, he said: "It would happenregion by region and city by city and neighbourhood byneighbourhood."According to him, this technology would be driven by theentrepreneurs.
Moreover, it would have impact on the business ofthe insurance companies because the number of accidents willdecrease.
It is going to wipe out the insurance companies as their40 per cent business comes from motor accidents.
Globally experiments are going on autonomous cars, whichare also known as driverless cars or self-driving cars. Theyare capable of sensing their environment and navigatingwithout human input. PTI KRHSBT.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.