Where are India's mobility experiments?

Policy needs to incentivise experimentation with mobility models

A collision involving Uber’s self-driving autonomous SUV was, unfortunately, the cause of death of a pedestrian in Arizona last month. The three main questions being raised are:

• What exactly went wrong with the automatic sensors?
• Why was the back-up driver not able to control it?
• What should be done to prevent a repeat?

This tragedy in the US is likely to prompt some soul-searching among car companies and regulators around the world, about how to maximise safety as additional autonomous miles are clocked. According to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report of February, almost 60 cities globally had started hosting pilot programmes for autonomous