Quietly but steadily, India is playing a growing role in the global quest for autonomous electric vehicles. Engineers based in India are estimated to be writing roughly 35 per cent of the 100 million lines of codes required to develop one fully driverless car for global vehicle makers.
On the key role being played by India, Karthikeyan Natarajan, engineering R&D council chair of Nasscom and chief operating officer of Cyient said global auto Tier-1 companies already have 50,000-55,000 software engineers working in India while OEMs have another 25,000.
“Service providers to these companies have also hired 40,000 software engineers only