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authorities and the city administrators video (USA) shows a Domino’s Pizza
“Are local do not compromise on the quality being delivered by a driverless car that
authorities taking while selecting or choosing the goes to the destination and delivers
system integrator, company and the
the pizza when an ID is flashed before
great initiatives organisation which goes to deploy it. Saying that as drivers we learn what
like seamlessly these solutions, because we need a not to do and that is a great lesson for
integrating Metro sustainable solution which works for algorithms on driverless cars, he asked
with the BRTS? It five, ten, fifteen, twenty years”. Srivastava to throw light on policies,
technology and feasibility of driverless
He added, “Apart from doing the
still appears to be basic function like tracking, we at cars in India.
a grey area and Bosch, are also looking very seriously Srivastava responded, “How can
there is a gap. As at vehicle health management, safety something which can work in California
policy-makers or aspect, and the driver behaviour or San Francisco work in towns like
policy-thinkers, we so that the driver does not cause Patna or Jamshedpur or Ranchi? I spoke
accidents. And while doing so, we are
about the integration, continuous and
need to consciously also very committed to environment shared mobility but I deleted one
talk about it.” protection and carbon footprint and word which is used globally which is
that is why we also have very good ‘autonomous’. So we are seriously not
– Krishna prasad contemporary solutions for air quality talking about the ‘autonomous’ for the
monitoring. These systems also have simple reason that we are probably in a
to be automotive grade because in very preliminary stage of implementing
systems in India whereas Italy and ITS, the brain of the technology is the our transport in that serious fashion.
France have deployed technology on-board device unit and it has to be There are a lot of things which do take
very productively”, he said. “But why automotive grade”. place elsewhere, plus you need to
are we not having great references in Rao agreed with Wali’s point have a different kind of infrastructure.
India despite a few cities investing in on quality and said, “Some of the In case you look for a self-driven car
and deploying technology? Because purchase processes do not really focus and you also have to look at people
we do not take its governance model upon the qualitative elements or the -- the way they are disciplined, the way
seriously. Technology gets deployed state of the art elements”. He asked they follow the yellow line or white
but we ignore it. For example: city A Malik if he wanted to respond to that. lines and the way they stop at signs.
invests heavily in technology but is the Malik did. He said, “I have no hesitation All this has to be a totally different kind
city using the information that comes in admitting that there is a problem of game. So, we have to be careful in
in at the depo level for scheduling in some of the purchase processes. terms of the autonomous and the self-
& planning of the fleet? Is the Now when the government has to driven cars. We really need not push it
information used properly for better follow a process, the lowest cost of or take it at this point of time further
safety & services to the users of the the standards are met. The technical but there is a lot which can be done in
city? Is the information reaching the specifications are met too but what has other areas. This is not that important
administrators of the fleet operators not been given a thought to is: how a thing at least in the Indian scenario.
correctly? I think these are the basic carefully will they assemble it all? So Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke sometime
questions that need to be answered I would actually add in the same vein, back too that we would not talk about
because only then will ROI be received much to the credit of the government, the autonomous”.
on investment, otherwise it will be a that in many smart city engagements Malik added, “I happened to see
dull and dud investment made on we are actually seeing the emergence this driverless Google car last year
account of technology”. of a selection criterion called QCBS in California in the university where
Wali also cautioned to keep the (Qualitative and Cost Based Selection). we had the Global Entrepreneurship
quality standard in mind while This is making the approach almost Summit. This was one of the hot items
implementing technology. He said, egalitarian and it is not just the L1 that seen there. I don’t see any problem
“When we talk of ITS, hitherto it is being opted for”. because whether it is as unruly (as
was UBS 2.0 and now the new Emphasising that driverless cars people) depends on the quality of the
standard being implemented is AIS are a hot topic everywhere now, Rao sensors and capacity of the sensors
140. It is very important that the mentioned the viral rage wherein a to respond to situations. One of the

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