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India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-they-can-be-tech-support-for-the-cars dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 26 2017, @07:35AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday July 26 2017, @07:35AM (#544529) Journal

    Thinking that you actually solve problems by banning technology is so shortsighted and lacking in understanding the issues that I fail to see how one could become such a luddite short of a lobotomy.

    There's a reason why some countries thrived early on and other didn't..
    Culture and virtues, DO play a part.

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