AnantS
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Irrespective of our discussion and opinion, Driverless tech is being developed both in Govt research orgs and private companies like TCS/Mahindra. But what I wanted to point out to you, is Infrastructure in Himalayan regions will need massive investments and improvements before Driverless trucks get deployed. The Army convoy will use same Track/Road which villagers and tourists use. I know, what you are thinking in mind is a Driver-less Truck along lines of Terramax. But in case of India, we have problems like unruly traffic, badly planned and build quality of roads. All these problems get magnified 1000 times over in upper Himalayan narrow, unstable roads, with still pretty high volume of traffic. Imagine reversing a loaded truck on very narrow, single lane, twisty road uphill on mountain to nearly a kilometer to temp small parking space at edge of cliff, in order to make way for long line of incoming traffic, which very precariously passes near to your vehicle.Don't mind me saying, but if we don't attempt it now then in 15 years time we will be cribbing about how some German company is not giving favourable ToT on the driverless technology.
Our choice.
Personally I believe in philosophy that I'd rather try and fail rather than sit and pass judgements.
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