India has one of the highest number of road fatalities in the world (In top 5). 400 people die everyday on the road! 1000s of more accidents happen which don't get tracked. People who did nothing wrong get killed because someone was not paying attention.

Driverless cars or rather augmented driving will save lives but the minister doesn't care for those. Driverless cars will create more jobs in engineering, training and monitoring because driverless cars will not come one fine day but over a period of 10 years.

As someone who is working on self driving tech, this saddens me.

India needs more eyes on this problem because of our roads and our bad traffic sense. The fact that we don't drive on the same side of the road as the western world means their tech won't be adaptable directly. So much potential and opportunity but I guess the minister wants us to keep doing the cheap menial jobs.