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Autonomous Vehicles | Will They Will They Not in India

Background Almost every other day there is a news article explaining how Artificial Intelligence (mostly wedded to Deep Neural Networks) will take over the mundane task of driving your car. The positive articles suggest that this vehicle automation will make us all do -better- things like read newspaper while being (auto) chauffeur driven and the negative articles say that these will take away the jobs of taxi drivers (invariably taxi is equivalent to Uber!). Depending on  whom you speak to you get an answer suggesting anything from 6 months to next couple of year. But almost all seem to be very positive about the possibility of robo-cars on the roads. It is not that they have not been tried, they have in a very very controlled scenario (equivalent to prototype) and when it has been left semi-loose we have had reports of them getting a little scenarios which we humans do. So there is still work to do. Will it become a reality? May be in some places, but very unlikely in a ...