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India is resisting the push towards driverless cars in order to protect jobs, its transport minister has said.
Nitin Gadkari said the government would "not allow any technology that takes away jobs".
He said India needed to recruit about 22,000 more commercial drivers and would be opening 100 training facilities to address the need.
India's road system and sometimes chaotic traffic makes it a difficult place to develop the technology.
The Hindustan Times reports Mr Gadkari as saying: "We won't allow driverless cars in India. I am very clear on this.
"In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs."
Wonder what Mr. Gadkari's position is on the technology that has outsourced jobs in America and Europe to India?
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:21AM
Under normal conditions, you'd be right to say that not adopting new technology that improves productivity and quality-of-life in order to encourage employment is the same as the broken window fallacy. However, the automobile market is already managed using planned obsoleteness, regulated fuel-prices and the forced supply of car parts. So, depending on the circumstances, preventing self-driving cars might be beneficial for India \ most Indians at least until the technology becomes prolific enough to cover the lost wages.
It's sorta like picking up a new smartphone nowadays: Even if it has a few more bells and whistles, it's still a waste of money for 99.999% of the population.
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