Cart before horse: On India and vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology
Road infrastructure in India must be improved before technological solutions such as vehicle-to-vehicle or V2V communication technology can effectively reduce accidents
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India is, in many respects, a country in transition and thus suffers varieties of a common chicken-and-egg problem: it adopts solutions that are only feasible at scale but struggles to operationalise that scale. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is set to introduce vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology that will allow vehicles on the road to send and receive data about their location and movement vectors, in a bid to improve road safety. This seems credible at a time when road accidents are increasing in India. A spate of accidents in April in Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh killed more than 50 people.
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