Autonomous vehicles: The future of automobiles

Autonomous cars are the future smart cars anticipated to be driver less, efficient and crash avoiding ideal urban car of the future. To reach this goal automakers have started working in this area to realized the potential and solve the challenges currently in this area to reach the expected outcome. In this regard the first challenge would be to customize and imbibe existing technology in conventional vehicle to translate them to a near expected autonomous car. This transition of conventional vehicles into an autonomous vehicle by adopting and implementing different upcoming technologies is discussed in this paper. This includes the objectives of autonomous vehicles and their implementation difficulties. The paper also touches upon the existing standards for the same and compares the introduction of autonomous vehicles in Indian market in comparison to other markets. There after the acceptance approach in Indian market scenarios is discussed for autonomous vehicles.