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India will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

India has become the very first major economy to say no to driverless cars, with transport minister Nitin Gadkari telling the government “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

While countries including the USA and UK are encouraging autonomous-vehicle testing and legalising its use, the government of India has announced it will take the opposite route and prohibit the technology from the roads.

“We won’t permit driverless cars in India,” the Hindustan Times reports Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, telling on Tuesday. “I am very clear on this.”

“We won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that finishes up taking people’s jobs.”

Gadkari went on to say the country needed Two.Two million more commercial drivers, and that the next five years would see 500,000 drivers trained in one hundred freshly created driver-training centres.

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“How do you avoid a robot apocalypse?”

Automation is menacing roles across a number of industries worldwide. A latest report suggested that thirty per cent of the UK’s jobs could be substituted by robotic technologies in the next fifteen years, and that the transport sector is likely to be among the most greatly affected, largely due to the uptake of driverless cars, trucks and buses.

Self-driving cars are already being tested by companies including Apple, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Google, and Tesla’s might be coming as early as 2018.

Uber has also been testing autonomous technology, even however the company’s success in the field would render most of its workforce redundant.

For the most part, governments have been leisurely but surely welcoming driverless cars. In the USA, the Department of Transportation has pledged $Four billion (£Two.8 billion) towards improving autonomous vehicles and providing the infrastructure to support them, based on evidence suggesting it will reduce road accidents.

Related story

Amazon patents highway network to stop self-driving cars crashing

India, too, has had some driverless-car testing on its roads from the likes of local auto brand Tata, albeit the technology already faces particular obstacles in the country.

The Economic Times reported earlier this year that Tata Elxsi, the innovation arm of the Tata Group, were fighting to get their systems to recognise the many different, customised forms of auto rickshaws.

“After training and feeding hundreds of photos, our system cannot identify fifteen per cent of the vehicles on the Indian road,” said Nitin Pai, Tata Elxsi’s senior vice president and head of strategy and marketing. “The driverless car is ready for the road. But is the road ready for the car?”

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The very first example that I have seen which is focusing on people before technology shove. I am behind the idea that progression in terms of autonomy should be strenuously regulated.

Driverless cars is an interesting one tho’. If driverless vehicles lead to a more collective transport system then I have to say that there seem to be many benefits in having less cars on the road. However the automotive industry being what it is, I imagine that driverless cars are just going to be used as a fresh marketing instrument to sell more units in an industry that is enormously consumption lead.

From my practice, India is a nation of prep so I think that damming a flood of fresh vehicle consumption while maintaining what you already have could undoubtedly be viewed as a positive thing.

We will have to see how well it stick’s in the long run tho’. If anybody has any other examples of the decision being made to refrain from automation for the benefit of workers I would love to hear about them!

Car manufacturers are fearful that instead of us all having one (sitting stationary for twenty three hours a day) we will call for one when we need it. Already youthfull people don’t want cars the way their parents did.

Why own a hunk of tin to get around when you can use someone else’s much more cheaply? This attitude will reduce vehicle numbers massively.

My thoughts exactly. It’s also Eco friendly. We won’t need ‘tin cans’ farting environment hurting gases and worse one per person. Only problem I find is whether India’s current power grid can support so many electrified cars. Did anyone think about whether or not to ban pony carts for automobiles since carts drivers would be unemployed I think not. I support electrified cars worldwide. Also, the switch will be gradual me thinks so cab drivers will have lots of time to attempt their mitt at something else. Originally, the government may also help them. Reminisce no need to fear technology it only makes your life better

Wow, no mention of the downright awful and dangerous driving in India, and the 150,000 deaths a year caused by it? I wonder whether relatives of those killed would prioritise jobs over lives? I would trust a driverless car over every single driver I’ve had over numerous trips and months spent in India.

It is very disconcerting when in India to question safety on the roads only for whoever is driving to point to a statue on their dashboard and say, depending on religion, ‘X god will protect us, don’t worry master’. Very scant consolation.

Unless every single human part of the chain is substituted the risk is always there. It’s a perception issue. I drive in Europe and in India regularly and feel safe in both places identically.

They can originally develop self-drive cars which work alongside ‘chaotic’ Indian vehicles then after a large majority of the cars on the road are self-drive switch the traffic system to a more disciplined one, may take five years may take fifty but as long as it happens one day why shouldn’t we support it today?

PS: I live in Marathalli, Bangalore and have been to Singapore on vacation I can most honestly tell you, that you cannot compare traffic from both countries. Driving on an Indian road is like driving a unicycle it’s dangerous but with practice, you learn to do it you may have mishaps however. Driving on a Singaporean road is like driving a bicycle with training wheels anyone can rail it without much mishaps. To improve oneself one must very first admit the fault. Similarly to improve one’s country one must also admit there is a fault. Patriotism is good but you must not overlook faults. I give my total support to anyone who can develop a self drive for current Indian roads.

It is an interesting point, actually. It applies to the UK also. An economy where over 60% of the populous have been evolved in primary, then secondary, tertiary and now quaternary industrial sectors over three hundred years is now in danger of making itself, erm, redundant? Who ‘adds the value’? How might they earn a living in the future? All genuine interesting questions.

We Indians know why our politicians say this and we also know why autonomous cars can never become reality in a country like India. Frankly, they don’t make sense here.

Why might I ask? I’m Indian and I think self-driving cars can reform the traffic sector . Indians have the most to build up with selfdriving tech. Imagine disciplined traffic like in the west. we may have it too. How to make it work is the responsibility of the makers not us. But imagine Indian traffic that is as disciplined like the US and other western countries where you can sleep on your way to work. Where you shouldn’t worry about your life crossing roads and sleep while coming home from work. Why would anyone give up on all this?

Too late. India already has technology that takes away people’s jobs.

IKR, IT and Industrial Automation have been taking jobs since he was a wee little populist fanboi.

We still have palanquin (around fellows carrying a man) and cycle rickshaws in the name of employment.

Then instruct the drivers to construct real roads. They’ll have jobs and driverless cars can still be introduced.

The thickest problem for India is that their brightest and best don’t live there and so avoid the problems the country has. This political statement is just for the masses now, before driverless cars become a reality.

The political system has largely been a form of vote bank politics and minority & tribal bootlicking. The concerns of the’ middle class’ fall on deaf ears. An example, till date except 2-3 schemes the government has done absolutely NOTHING for the middle income workers more so if they belong to general category. We face deadly competition in universities, ineligibility for 98% of government scholarships and then income tax.

As a result the brightest creme de la creme immigrate to the US and UK to live fuller lives and the country gets worse and worse. Populist policymakers are ruining my homeland. Also the roads are so dangerous that if you ever rail a two wheeler in metro cities you will 99% meet with an accident a few times in your life also the traffic is chaotic hardly anybody goes after rules. Driverless cars promise to switch that I hope narrow minded politicians like this don’t hamper modernisation or India will repeat its mistakes from pre 1990.

This sounds like a un-thought-through soundbite if ever there was one: “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

Well that means everything goes back to manual labour with no instruments or technology. As much as India has a fat disparity in wealth and education it still needs to balance the needs of all its people and improve the lives of the masses. The minister should be making positive and progressive statements about fresh jobs and creating jobs rather than holding on to the status quo.

This Minister has dual standards and is a populist fanboy. He doesn’t know Indian Industries already have automation and the sad fact is that the taxi unions here are so strong that in fear of losing votes they actually will do this. India always has been a country where the rich and middle class are bashed with taxes and the so called ‘downtrodden’ are given privileges even some middle-class lack. India drivers also have no sense of traffic rules and pedestrian safety, this is our only salvation for a traffic reformation I hope it doesn’t get blocked by dolts like this. Modernisation always leads to more jobs of higher quality we must never leave behind that.

Also this he must not leave behind that employment is treated by another department of the government they have more practice than this half wit to tackle employment problems. And he has so far not done a single thing to improve traffic safety on Indian roads which is leisurely becoming more and more dangerous

India says it will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

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India will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

India has become the very first major economy to say no to driverless cars, with transport minister Nitin Gadkari telling the government “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

While countries including the USA and UK are encouraging autonomous-vehicle testing and legalising its use, the government of India has announced it will take the opposite route and prohibit the technology from the roads.

“We won’t permit driverless cars in India,” the Hindustan Times reports Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, telling on Tuesday. “I am very clear on this.”

“We won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that completes up taking people’s jobs.”

Gadkari went on to say the country needed Two.Two million more commercial drivers, and that the next five years would see 500,000 drivers trained in one hundred freshly created driver-training centres.

Related story

“How do you avoid a robot apocalypse?”

Automation is menacing roles across a number of industries worldwide. A latest report suggested that thirty per cent of the UK’s jobs could be substituted by robotic technologies in the next fifteen years, and that the transport sector is likely to be among the most greatly affected, largely due to the uptake of driverless cars, trucks and buses.

Self-driving cars are already being tested by companies including Apple, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Google, and Tesla’s might be coming as early as 2018.

Uber has also been testing autonomous technology, even tho’ the company’s success in the field would render most of its workforce redundant.

For the most part, governments have been leisurely but surely welcoming driverless cars. In the USA, the Department of Transportation has pledged $Four billion (£Two.8 billion) towards improving autonomous vehicles and providing the infrastructure to support them, based on evidence suggesting it will reduce road accidents.

Related story

Amazon patents highway network to stop self-driving cars crashing

India, too, has had some driverless-car testing on its roads from the likes of local auto brand Tata, albeit the technology already faces particular obstacles in the country.

The Economic Times reported earlier this year that Tata Elxsi, the innovation arm of the Tata Group, were fighting to get their systems to recognise the many different, customised forms of auto rickshaws.

“After training and feeding hundreds of photos, our system cannot identify fifteen per cent of the vehicles on the Indian road,” said Nitin Pai, Tata Elxsi’s senior vice president and head of strategy and marketing. “The driverless car is ready for the road. But is the road ready for the car?”

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Comments

The very first example that I have seen which is focusing on people before technology shove. I am behind the idea that progression in terms of autonomy should be intensely regulated.

Driverless cars is an interesting one however. If driverless vehicles lead to a more collective transport system then I have to say that there seem to be many benefits in having less cars on the road. However the automotive industry being what it is, I imagine that driverless cars are just going to be used as a fresh marketing implement to sell more units in an industry that is enormously consumption lead.

From my practice, India is a nation of prep so I think that damming a flood of fresh vehicle consumption while maintaining what you already have could undoubtedly be viewed as a positive thing.

We will have to see how well it stick’s in the long run however. If anybody has any other examples of the decision being made to refrain from automation for the benefit of workers I would love to hear about them!

Car manufacturers are fearful that instead of us all having one (sitting stationary for twenty three hours a day) we will call for one when we need it. Already youthfull people don’t want cars the way their parents did.

Why own a hunk of tin to get around when you can use someone else’s much more cheaply? This attitude will reduce vehicle numbers massively.

My thoughts exactly. It’s also Eco friendly. We won’t need ‘tin cans’ farting environment bruising gases and worse one per person. Only problem I find is whether India’s current power grid can support so many electrified cars. Did anyone think about whether or not to ban pony carts for automobiles since carts drivers would be unemployed I think not. I support electrical cars worldwide. Also, the switch will be gradual me thinks so cab drivers will have lots of time to attempt their mitt at something else. Primarily, the government may also help them. Reminisce no need to fear technology it only makes your life better

Wow, no mention of the downright awful and dangerous driving in India, and the 150,000 deaths a year caused by it? I wonder whether relatives of those killed would prioritise jobs over lives? I would trust a driverless car over every single driver I’ve had over numerous trips and months spent in India.

It is very disconcerting when in India to question safety on the roads only for whoever is driving to point to a statue on their dashboard and say, depending on religion, ‘X god will protect us, don’t worry tormentor’. Very scant consolation.

Unless every single human part of the chain is substituted the risk is always there. It’s a perception issue. I drive in Europe and in India regularly and feel safe in both places identically.

They can originally develop self-drive cars which work alongside ‘chaotic’ Indian vehicles then after a large majority of the cars on the road are self-drive switch the traffic system to a more disciplined one, may take five years may take fifty but as long as it happens one day why shouldn’t we support it today?

PS: I live in Marathalli, Bangalore and have been to Singapore on vacation I can most honestly tell you, that you cannot compare traffic from both countries. Driving on an Indian road is like driving a unicycle it’s dangerous but with practice, you learn to do it you may have mishaps tho’. Driving on a Singaporean road is like driving a bicycle with training wheels anyone can rail it without much mishaps. To improve oneself one must very first admit the fault. Similarly to improve one’s country one must also admit there is a fault. Patriotism is good but you must not overlook faults. I give my utter support to anyone who can develop a self drive for current Indian roads.

It is an interesting point, actually. It applies to the UK also. An economy where over 60% of the populous have been evolved in primary, then secondary, tertiary and now quaternary industrial sectors over three hundred years is now in danger of making itself, erm, redundant? Who ‘adds the value’? How might they earn a living in the future? All genuine interesting questions.

We Indians know why our politicians say this and we also know why autonomous cars can never become reality in a country like India. Frankly, they don’t make sense here.

Why might I ask? I’m Indian and I think self-driving cars can reform the traffic sector . Indians have the most to build up with selfdriving tech. Imagine disciplined traffic like in the west. we may have it too. How to make it work is the responsibility of the makers not us. But imagine Indian traffic that is as disciplined like the US and other western countries where you can sleep on your way to work. Where you shouldn’t worry about your life crossing roads and sleep while coming home from work. Why would anyone give up on all this?

Too late. India already has technology that takes away people’s jobs.

IKR, IT and Industrial Automation have been taking jobs since he was a wee little populist fanboi.

We still have palanquin (around dudes carrying a man) and cycle rickshaws in the name of employment.

Then instruct the drivers to construct real roads. They’ll have jobs and driverless cars can still be introduced.

The thickest problem for India is that their brightest and best don’t live there and so avoid the problems the country has. This political statement is just for the masses now, before driverless cars become a reality.

The political system has largely been a form of vote bank politics and minority & tribal bootlicking. The concerns of the’ middle class’ fall on deaf ears. An example, till date except 2-3 schemes the government has done absolutely NOTHING for the middle income workers more so if they belong to general category. We face deadly competition in universities, ineligibility for 98% of government scholarships and then income tax.

As a result the brightest creme de la creme immigrate to the US and UK to live fuller lives and the country gets worse and worse. Populist policymakers are ruining my homeland. Also the roads are so dangerous that if you ever rail a two wheeler in metro cities you will 99% meet with an accident a few times in your life also the traffic is chaotic hardly anybody goes after rules. Driverless cars promise to switch that I hope narrow minded politicians like this don’t hamper modernisation or India will repeat its mistakes from pre 1990.

This sounds like a un-thought-through soundbite if ever there was one: “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

Well that means everything goes back to manual labour with no contraptions or technology. As much as India has a big disparity in wealth and education it still needs to balance the needs of all its people and improve the lives of the masses. The minister should be making positive and progressive statements about fresh jobs and creating jobs rather than holding on to the status quo.

This Minister has dual standards and is a populist fanboy. He doesn’t know Indian Industries already have automation and the sad fact is that the taxi unions here are so strong that in fear of losing votes they actually will do this. India always has been a country where the rich and middle class are bashed with taxes and the so called ‘downtrodden’ are given privileges even some middle-class lack. India drivers also have no sense of traffic rules and pedestrian safety, this is our only salvation for a traffic reformation I hope it doesn’t get blocked by dolts like this. Modernisation always leads to more jobs of higher quality we must never leave behind that.

Also this he must not leave behind that employment is treated by another department of the government they have more practice than this half wit to tackle employment problems. And he has so far not done a single thing to improve traffic safety on Indian roads which is leisurely becoming more and more dangerous

India says it will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

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India will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

India has become the very first major economy to say no to driverless cars, with transport minister Nitin Gadkari telling the government “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

While countries including the USA and UK are encouraging autonomous-vehicle testing and legalising its use, the government of India has announced it will take the opposite route and prohibit the technology from the roads.

“We won’t permit driverless cars in India,” the Hindustan Times reports Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, telling on Tuesday. “I am very clear on this.”

“We won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that completes up taking people’s jobs.”

Gadkari went on to say the country needed Two.Two million more commercial drivers, and that the next five years would see 500,000 drivers trained in one hundred freshly created driver-training centres.

Related story

“How do you avoid a robot apocalypse?”

Automation is menacing roles across a number of industries worldwide. A latest report suggested that thirty per cent of the UK’s jobs could be substituted by robotic technologies in the next fifteen years, and that the transport sector is likely to be among the most greatly affected, largely due to the uptake of driverless cars, trucks and buses.

Self-driving cars are already being tested by companies including Apple, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Google, and Tesla’s might be coming as early as 2018.

Uber has also been testing autonomous technology, even however the company’s success in the field would render most of its workforce redundant.

For the most part, governments have been leisurely but surely welcoming driverless cars. In the USA, the Department of Transportation has pledged $Four billion (£Two.8 billion) towards improving autonomous vehicles and providing the infrastructure to support them, based on evidence suggesting it will reduce road accidents.

Related story

Amazon patents highway network to stop self-driving cars crashing

India, too, has had some driverless-car testing on its roads from the likes of local auto brand Tata, albeit the technology already faces particular obstacles in the country.

The Economic Times reported earlier this year that Tata Elxsi, the innovation arm of the Tata Group, were fighting to get their systems to recognise the many different, customised forms of auto rickshaws.

“After training and feeding hundreds of photos, our system cannot identify fifteen per cent of the vehicles on the Indian road,” said Nitin Pai, Tata Elxsi’s senior vice president and head of strategy and marketing. “The driverless car is ready for the road. But is the road ready for the car?”

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The very first example that I have seen which is focusing on people before technology thrust. I am behind the idea that progression in terms of autonomy should be intensely regulated.

Driverless cars is an interesting one tho’. If driverless vehicles lead to a more collective transport system then I have to say that there seem to be many benefits in having less cars on the road. However the automotive industry being what it is, I imagine that driverless cars are just going to be used as a fresh marketing contraption to sell more units in an industry that is enormously consumption lead.

From my practice, India is a nation of prep so I think that damming a flood of fresh vehicle consumption while maintaining what you already have could undoubtedly be viewed as a positive thing.

We will have to see how well it stick’s in the long run tho’. If anybody has any other examples of the decision being made to refrain from automation for the benefit of workers I would love to hear about them!

Car manufacturers are fearful that instead of us all having one (sitting stationary for twenty three hours a day) we will call for one when we need it. Already youthfull people don’t want cars the way their parents did.

Why own a hunk of tin to get around when you can use someone else’s much more cheaply? This attitude will reduce vehicle numbers massively.

My thoughts exactly. It’s also Eco friendly. We won’t need ‘tin cans’ farting environment hurting gases and worse one per person. Only problem I find is whether India’s current power grid can support so many electrified cars. Did anyone think about whether or not to ban pony carts for automobiles since carts drivers would be unemployed I think not. I support electrical cars worldwide. Also, the switch will be gradual me thinks so cab drivers will have lots of time to attempt their arm at something else. Originally, the government may also help them. Recall no need to fear technology it only makes your life better

Wow, no mention of the downright awful and dangerous driving in India, and the 150,000 deaths a year caused by it? I wonder whether relatives of those killed would prioritise jobs over lives? I would trust a driverless car over every single driver I’ve had over numerous trips and months spent in India.

It is very disconcerting when in India to question safety on the roads only for whoever is driving to point to a statue on their dashboard and say, depending on religion, ‘X god will protect us, don’t worry tormentor’. Very scant consolation.

Unless every single human part of the chain is substituted the risk is always there. It’s a perception issue. I drive in Europe and in India regularly and feel safe in both places identically.

They can originally develop self-drive cars which work alongside ‘chaotic’ Indian vehicles then after a large majority of the cars on the road are self-drive switch the traffic system to a more disciplined one, may take five years may take fifty but as long as it happens one day why shouldn’t we support it today?

PS: I live in Marathalli, Bangalore and have been to Singapore on vacation I can most honestly tell you, that you cannot compare traffic from both countries. Driving on an Indian road is like driving a unicycle it’s dangerous but with practice, you learn to do it you may have mishaps tho’. Driving on a Singaporean road is like driving a bicycle with training wheels anyone can rail it without much mishaps. To improve oneself one must very first admit the fault. Similarly to improve one’s country one must also admit there is a fault. Patriotism is good but you must not overlook faults. I give my utter support to anyone who can develop a self drive for current Indian roads.

It is an interesting point, actually. It applies to the UK also. An economy where over 60% of the populous have been evolved in primary, then secondary, tertiary and now quaternary industrial sectors over three hundred years is now in danger of making itself, erm, redundant? Who ‘adds the value’? How might they earn a living in the future? All genuine interesting questions.

We Indians know why our politicians say this and we also know why autonomous cars can never become reality in a country like India. Frankly, they don’t make sense here.

Why might I ask? I’m Indian and I think self-driving cars can reform the traffic sector . Indians have the most to build up with selfdriving tech. Imagine disciplined traffic like in the west. we may have it too. How to make it work is the responsibility of the makers not us. But imagine Indian traffic that is as disciplined like the US and other western countries where you can sleep on your way to work. Where you shouldn’t worry about your life crossing roads and sleep while coming home from work. Why would anyone give up on all this?

Too late. India already has technology that takes away people’s jobs.

IKR, IT and Industrial Automation have been taking jobs since he was a wee little populist fanboi.

We still have palanquin (around fellows carrying a man) and cycle rickshaws in the name of employment.

Then instruct the drivers to construct real roads. They’ll have jobs and driverless cars can still be introduced.

The largest problem for India is that their brightest and best don’t live there and so avoid the problems the country has. This political statement is just for the masses now, before driverless cars become a reality.

The political system has largely been a form of vote bank politics and minority & tribal bootlicking. The concerns of the’ middle class’ fall on deaf ears. An example, till date except 2-3 schemes the government has done absolutely NOTHING for the middle income workers more so if they belong to general category. We face deadly competition in universities, ineligibility for 98% of government scholarships and then income tax.

As a result the brightest creme de la creme immigrate to the US and UK to live fuller lives and the country gets worse and worse. Populist policymakers are ruining my homeland. Also the roads are so dangerous that if you ever rail a two wheeler in metro cities you will 99% meet with an accident a few times in your life also the traffic is chaotic hardly anybody goes after rules. Driverless cars promise to switch that I hope narrow minded politicians like this don’t hamper modernisation or India will repeat its mistakes from pre 1990.

This sounds like a un-thought-through soundbite if ever there was one: “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

Well that means everything goes back to manual labour with no devices or technology. As much as India has a phat disparity in wealth and education it still needs to balance the needs of all its people and improve the lives of the masses. The minister should be making positive and progressive statements about fresh jobs and creating jobs rather than holding on to the status quo.

This Minister has dual standards and is a populist fanboy. He doesn’t know Indian Industries already have automation and the sad fact is that the taxi unions here are so strong that in fear of losing votes they actually will do this. India always has been a country where the rich and middle class are bashed with taxes and the so called ‘downtrodden’ are given privileges even some middle-class lack. India drivers also have no sense of traffic rules and pedestrian safety, this is our only salvation for a traffic reformation I hope it doesn’t get blocked by dolts like this. Modernisation always leads to more jobs of higher quality we must never leave behind that.

Also this he must not leave behind that employment is treated by another department of the government they have more practice than this half wit to tackle employment problems. And he has so far not done a single thing to improve traffic safety on Indian roads which is leisurely becoming more and more dangerous

India says it will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

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India will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

India has become the very first major economy to say no to driverless cars, with transport minister Nitin Gadkari telling the government “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

While countries including the USA and UK are encouraging autonomous-vehicle testing and legalising its use, the government of India has announced it will take the opposite route and prohibit the technology from the roads.

“We won’t permit driverless cars in India,” the Hindustan Times reports Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, telling on Tuesday. “I am very clear on this.”

“We won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that completes up taking people’s jobs.”

Gadkari went on to say the country needed Two.Two million more commercial drivers, and that the next five years would see 500,000 drivers trained in one hundred freshly created driver-training centres.

Related story

“How do you avoid a robot apocalypse?”

Automation is menacing roles across a number of industries worldwide. A latest report suggested that thirty per cent of the UK’s jobs could be substituted by robotic technologies in the next fifteen years, and that the transport sector is likely to be among the most greatly affected, largely due to the uptake of driverless cars, trucks and buses.

Self-driving cars are already being tested by companies including Apple, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Google, and Tesla’s might be coming as early as 2018.

Uber has also been testing autonomous technology, even tho’ the company’s success in the field would render most of its workforce redundant.

For the most part, governments have been leisurely but surely welcoming driverless cars. In the USA, the Department of Transportation has pledged $Four billion (£Two.8 billion) towards improving autonomous vehicles and providing the infrastructure to support them, based on evidence suggesting it will reduce road accidents.

Related story

Amazon patents highway network to stop self-driving cars crashing

India, too, has had some driverless-car testing on its roads from the likes of local auto brand Tata, albeit the technology already faces particular obstacles in the country.

The Economic Times reported earlier this year that Tata Elxsi, the innovation arm of the Tata Group, were fighting to get their systems to recognise the many different, customised forms of auto rickshaws.

“After training and feeding hundreds of photos, our system cannot identify fifteen per cent of the vehicles on the Indian road,” said Nitin Pai, Tata Elxsi’s senior vice president and head of strategy and marketing. “The driverless car is ready for the road. But is the road ready for the car?”

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Waymo’s self-driving cars could soften if they hit a pedestrian

Virginia Tech’s “driverless” van is steered by a man dressed .

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Wheelys’ Moby-Mart is a self-driving store with a .

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The very first example that I have seen which is focusing on people before technology shove. I am behind the idea that progression in terms of autonomy should be strenuously regulated.

Driverless cars is an interesting one tho’. If driverless vehicles lead to a more collective transport system then I have to say that there seem to be many benefits in having less cars on the road. However the automotive industry being what it is, I imagine that driverless cars are just going to be used as a fresh marketing implement to sell more units in an industry that is utterly consumption lead.

From my practice, India is a nation of prep so I think that damming a flood of fresh vehicle consumption while maintaining what you already have could undoubtedly be viewed as a positive thing.

We will have to see how well it stick’s in the long run however. If anybody has any other examples of the decision being made to refrain from automation for the benefit of workers I would love to hear about them!

Car manufacturers are fearful that instead of us all having one (sitting stationary for twenty three hours a day) we will call for one when we need it. Already youthful people don’t want cars the way their parents did.

Why own a hunk of tin to get around when you can use someone else’s much more cheaply? This attitude will reduce vehicle numbers massively.

My thoughts exactly. It’s also Eco friendly. We won’t need ‘tin cans’ farting environment hurting gases and worse one per person. Only problem I find is whether India’s current power grid can support so many electrical cars. Did anyone think about whether or not to ban pony carts for automobiles since carts drivers would be unemployed I think not. I support electrical cars worldwide. Also, the switch will be gradual me thinks so cab drivers will have lots of time to attempt their arm at something else. Originally, the government may also help them. Reminisce no need to fear technology it only makes your life better

Wow, no mention of the downright awful and dangerous driving in India, and the 150,000 deaths a year caused by it? I wonder whether relatives of those killed would prioritise jobs over lives? I would trust a driverless car over every single driver I’ve had over numerous trips and months spent in India.

It is very disconcerting when in India to question safety on the roads only for whoever is driving to point to a statue on their dashboard and say, depending on religion, ‘X god will protect us, don’t worry master’. Very scant consolation.

Unless every single human part of the chain is substituted the risk is always there. It’s a perception issue. I drive in Europe and in India regularly and feel safe in both places identically.

They can primarily develop self-drive cars which work alongside ‘chaotic’ Indian vehicles then after a large majority of the cars on the road are self-drive switch the traffic system to a more disciplined one, may take five years may take fifty but as long as it happens one day why shouldn’t we support it today?

PS: I live in Marathalli, Bangalore and have been to Singapore on vacation I can most honestly tell you, that you cannot compare traffic from both countries. Driving on an Indian road is like driving a unicycle it’s dangerous but with practice, you learn to do it you may have mishaps tho’. Driving on a Singaporean road is like driving a bicycle with training wheels anyone can rail it without much mishaps. To improve oneself one must very first admit the fault. Similarly to improve one’s country one must also admit there is a fault. Patriotism is good but you must not overlook faults. I give my utter support to anyone who can develop a self drive for current Indian roads.

It is an interesting point, actually. It applies to the UK also. An economy where over 60% of the populous have been evolved in primary, then secondary, tertiary and now quaternary industrial sectors over three hundred years is now in danger of making itself, erm, redundant? Who ‘adds the value’? How might they earn a living in the future? All genuine interesting questions.

We Indians know why our politicians say this and we also know why autonomous cars can never become reality in a country like India. Frankly, they don’t make sense here.

Why might I ask? I’m Indian and I think self-driving cars can reform the traffic sector . Indians have the most to build up with selfdriving tech. Imagine disciplined traffic like in the west. we may have it too. How to make it work is the responsibility of the makers not us. But imagine Indian traffic that is as disciplined like the US and other western countries where you can sleep on your way to work. Where you shouldn’t worry about your life crossing roads and sleep while coming home from work. Why would anyone give up on all this?

Too late. India already has technology that takes away people’s jobs.

IKR, IT and Industrial Automation have been taking jobs since he was a wee little populist fanboi.

We still have palanquin (around guys carrying a man) and cycle rickshaws in the name of employment.

Then instruct the drivers to construct real roads. They’ll have jobs and driverless cars can still be introduced.

The largest problem for India is that their brightest and best don’t live there and so avoid the problems the country has. This political statement is just for the masses now, before driverless cars become a reality.

The political system has largely been a form of vote bank politics and minority & tribal bootlicking. The concerns of the’ middle class’ fall on deaf ears. An example, till date except 2-3 schemes the government has done absolutely NOTHING for the middle income workers more so if they belong to general category. We face deadly competition in universities, ineligibility for 98% of government scholarships and then income tax.

As a result the brightest creme de la creme immigrate to the US and UK to live fuller lives and the country gets worse and worse. Populist policymakers are ruining my homeland. Also the roads are so dangerous that if you ever rail a two wheeler in metro cities you will 99% meet with an accident a few times in your life also the traffic is chaotic hardly anybody goes after rules. Driverless cars promise to switch that I hope narrow minded politicians like this don’t hamper modernisation or India will repeat its mistakes from pre 1990.

This sounds like a un-thought-through soundbite if ever there was one: “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

Well that means everything goes back to manual labour with no instruments or technology. As much as India has a big disparity in wealth and education it still needs to balance the needs of all its people and improve the lives of the masses. The minister should be making positive and progressive statements about fresh jobs and creating jobs rather than holding on to the status quo.

This Minister has dual standards and is a populist fanboy. He doesn’t know Indian Industries already have automation and the sad fact is that the taxi unions here are so strong that in fear of losing votes they actually will do this. India always has been a country where the rich and middle class are bashed with taxes and the so called ‘downtrodden’ are given privileges even some middle-class lack. India drivers also have no sense of traffic rules and pedestrian safety, this is our only salvation for a traffic reformation I hope it doesn’t get blocked by dolts like this. Modernisation always leads to more jobs of higher quality we must never leave behind that.

Also this he must not leave behind that employment is treated by another department of the government they have more practice than this half wit to tackle employment problems. And he has so far not done a single thing to improve traffic safety on Indian roads which is leisurely becoming more and more dangerous

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India will ban self-driving cars to protect jobs

India has become the very first major economy to say no to driverless cars, with transport minister Nitin Gadkari telling the government “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

While countries including the USA and UK are encouraging autonomous-vehicle testing and legalising its use, the government of India has announced it will take the opposite route and prohibit the technology from the roads.

“We won’t permit driverless cars in India,” the Hindustan Times reports Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, telling on Tuesday. “I am very clear on this.”

“We won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that finishes up taking people’s jobs.”

Gadkari went on to say the country needed Two.Two million more commercial drivers, and that the next five years would see 500,000 drivers trained in one hundred freshly created driver-training centres.

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Automation is menacing roles across a number of industries worldwide. A latest report suggested that thirty per cent of the UK’s jobs could be substituted by robotic technologies in the next fifteen years, and that the transport sector is likely to be among the most greatly affected, largely due to the uptake of driverless cars, trucks and buses.

Self-driving cars are already being tested by companies including Apple, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Google, and Tesla’s might be coming as early as 2018.

Uber has also been testing autonomous technology, even however the company’s success in the field would render most of its workforce redundant.

For the most part, governments have been leisurely but surely welcoming driverless cars. In the USA, the Department of Transportation has pledged $Four billion (£Two.8 billion) towards improving autonomous vehicles and providing the infrastructure to support them, based on evidence suggesting it will reduce road accidents.

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India, too, has had some driverless-car testing on its roads from the likes of local auto brand Tata, albeit the technology already faces particular obstacles in the country.

The Economic Times reported earlier this year that Tata Elxsi, the innovation arm of the Tata Group, were fighting to get their systems to recognise the many different, customised forms of auto rickshaws.

“After training and feeding hundreds of photos, our system cannot identify fifteen per cent of the vehicles on the Indian road,” said Nitin Pai, Tata Elxsi’s senior vice president and head of strategy and marketing. “The driverless car is ready for the road. But is the road ready for the car?”

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The very first example that I have seen which is focusing on people before technology thrust. I am behind the idea that progression in terms of autonomy should be strenuously regulated.

Driverless cars is an interesting one however. If driverless vehicles lead to a more collective transport system then I have to say that there seem to be many benefits in having less cars on the road. However the automotive industry being what it is, I imagine that driverless cars are just going to be used as a fresh marketing device to sell more units in an industry that is utterly consumption lead.

From my practice, India is a nation of prep so I think that damming a flood of fresh vehicle consumption while maintaining what you already have could undoubtedly be viewed as a positive thing.

We will have to see how well it stick’s in the long run tho’. If anybody has any other examples of the decision being made to refrain from automation for the benefit of workers I would love to hear about them!

Car manufacturers are fearful that instead of us all having one (sitting stationary for twenty three hours a day) we will call for one when we need it. Already youthful people don’t want cars the way their parents did.

Why own a hunk of tin to get around when you can use someone else’s much more cheaply? This attitude will reduce vehicle numbers massively.

My thoughts exactly. It’s also Eco friendly. We won’t need ‘tin cans’ farting environment hurting gases and worse one per person. Only problem I find is whether India’s current power grid can support so many electrical cars. Did anyone think about whether or not to ban pony carts for automobiles since carts drivers would be unemployed I think not. I support electrical cars worldwide. Also, the switch will be gradual me thinks so cab drivers will have lots of time to attempt their arm at something else. Originally, the government may also help them. Reminisce no need to fear technology it only makes your life better

Wow, no mention of the downright awful and dangerous driving in India, and the 150,000 deaths a year caused by it? I wonder whether relatives of those killed would prioritise jobs over lives? I would trust a driverless car over every single driver I’ve had over numerous trips and months spent in India.

It is very disconcerting when in India to question safety on the roads only for whoever is driving to point to a statue on their dashboard and say, depending on religion, ‘X god will protect us, don’t worry master’. Very scant consolation.

Unless every single human part of the chain is substituted the risk is always there. It’s a perception issue. I drive in Europe and in India regularly and feel safe in both places identically.

They can primarily develop self-drive cars which work alongside ‘chaotic’ Indian vehicles then after a large majority of the cars on the road are self-drive switch the traffic system to a more disciplined one, may take five years may take fifty but as long as it happens one day why shouldn’t we support it today?

PS: I live in Marathalli, Bangalore and have been to Singapore on vacation I can most honestly tell you, that you cannot compare traffic from both countries. Driving on an Indian road is like driving a unicycle it’s dangerous but with practice, you learn to do it you may have mishaps however. Driving on a Singaporean road is like driving a bicycle with training wheels anyone can rail it without much mishaps. To improve oneself one must very first admit the fault. Similarly to improve one’s country one must also admit there is a fault. Patriotism is good but you must not overlook faults. I give my utter support to anyone who can develop a self drive for current Indian roads.

It is an interesting point, actually. It applies to the UK also. An economy where over 60% of the populous have been evolved in primary, then secondary, tertiary and now quaternary industrial sectors over three hundred years is now in danger of making itself, erm, redundant? Who ‘adds the value’? How might they earn a living in the future? All genuine interesting questions.

We Indians know why our politicians say this and we also know why autonomous cars can never become reality in a country like India. Frankly, they don’t make sense here.

Why might I ask? I’m Indian and I think self-driving cars can reform the traffic sector . Indians have the most to build up with selfdriving tech. Imagine disciplined traffic like in the west. we may have it too. How to make it work is the responsibility of the makers not us. But imagine Indian traffic that is as disciplined like the US and other western countries where you can sleep on your way to work. Where you shouldn’t worry about your life crossing roads and sleep while coming home from work. Why would anyone give up on all this?

Too late. India already has technology that takes away people’s jobs.

IKR, IT and Industrial Automation have been taking jobs since he was a wee little populist fanboi.

We still have palanquin (around fellows carrying a man) and cycle rickshaws in the name of employment.

Then train the drivers to construct real roads. They’ll have jobs and driverless cars can still be introduced.

The thickest problem for India is that their brightest and best don’t live there and so avoid the problems the country has. This political statement is just for the masses now, before driverless cars become a reality.

The political system has largely been a form of vote bank politics and minority & tribal bootlicking. The concerns of the’ middle class’ fall on deaf ears. An example, till date except 2-3 schemes the government has done absolutely NOTHING for the middle income workers more so if they belong to general category. We face deadly competition in universities, ineligibility for 98% of government scholarships and then income tax.

As a result the brightest creme de la creme immigrate to the US and UK to live fuller lives and the country gets worse and worse. Populist policymakers are ruining my homeland. Also the roads are so dangerous that if you ever rail a two wheeler in metro cities you will 99% meet with an accident a few times in your life also the traffic is chaotic hardly anybody goes after rules. Driverless cars promise to switch that I hope narrow minded politicians like this don’t hamper modernisation or India will repeat its mistakes from pre 1990.

This sounds like a un-thought-through soundbite if ever there was one: “won’t permit any technology that takes away jobs”.

Well that means everything goes back to manual labour with no devices or technology. As much as India has a fat disparity in wealth and education it still needs to balance the needs of all its people and improve the lives of the masses. The minister should be making positive and progressive statements about fresh jobs and creating jobs rather than holding on to the status quo.

This Minister has dual standards and is a populist fanboy. He doesn’t know Indian Industries already have automation and the sad fact is that the taxi unions here are so strong that in fear of losing votes they actually will do this. India always has been a country where the rich and middle class are bashed with taxes and the so called ‘downtrodden’ are given privileges even some middle-class lack. India drivers also have no sense of traffic rules and pedestrian safety, this is our only salvation for a traffic reformation I hope it doesn’t get blocked by dolts like this. Modernisation always leads to more jobs of higher quality we must never leave behind that.

Also this he must not leave behind that employment is treated by another department of the government they have more practice than this half wit to tackle employment problems. And he has so far not done a single thing to improve traffic safety on Indian roads which is leisurely becoming more and more dangerous

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