Moo out of roads: Gujarat researchers build cow avoidance system for cars

Researchers say their method to detect cows on or adjacent to Indian roads hasn't been done before

In 2015, over 146,000 people were killed in 501,423 road accidents in India, with another 500,279 people injured. Overall, 29.1 people were killed in the country for every 100 road accidents. A number of factors are responsible for these ghastly numbers, including bad roads, rapid urban motorisation as well as a prevalent reluctance to follow traffic rules. However, it isn’t known how often cows are involved in any of these accidents. None of the National Crime Records Bureau, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the World Health Organisation have data on this.

Why would they? The cow isn’t