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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 Fluffeh on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:16AM (2 children)
I do very much wonder how he would feel if western countries adopted the exact same concept - but applied it to things such as off-shoring - which certainly costs jobs in those countries... I suspect that Mr Gadkari might have a rather vocal opinion on the matter actually.
Hi Pot, this is Kettle... I think you know what I'm calling to say right?
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday July 26 2017, @06:39AM
Something racist, obviously. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:18PM
Will Nitin Gadkari ban robocallers to provide full employment for Indian scammers?