Three Indian engineering institutions plan to build self-driving cars

Each of the three IITs is independently developing autonomous vehicles from scratch

Three premier engineering institutes in India—the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, Kanpur and Bombay—are independently working on developing self-driving cars, reports The Economic Times. “We are developing technology for driverless cars keeping the Indian market in mind, in contrast to the global tech majors who are building and testing technologies in the Western market,” Debashish Chakravarty, head of the autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) project at IIT Kharagpur told the newspaper. According to the report, students at IIT Kharagpur are currently testing such vehicles inside the campus.