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 caffeine on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:34AM
I suspect globalism is not the main game. The real game is ownership of western assets.
The Chinese government has wisely pegged the Renminbi, and as a superpower, are free to produce as much of it as they like. They are using this to purchase real assets all over the world. I don't think their balance of trade figures explains all the assets they are purchasing.
With so many governments around the world privatising assets like mines, ports, power stations, airports, it is a good time to be cashed up.