Indian roads are also an obstacle to the future deployment of autonomous vehicles . Volvo first tested its detection system in Sweden in areas populated with moose, then found during trials in Australia it couldn’t recognise marsupials. Erratic behaviour by pedestrians and drivers and regulations for self - driving vehicles are causing problems for tech companies such as Tata and Mahindra that are trying to develop the technology . The degradation in road quality , inconsistent signage , myriad vehicle types and occasional animals on the road could prove near - impossible for an AI system to navigate . The country has yet to see a roadworthy autonomous solution , despite billions being invested . “ After training and feeding hundreds of animals , our system can not detect 15 % of the vehicles on the road , ” said Nitin Pai at Tata Elxsi . Kangaroo hop confuses semi - autonomous driving systems Volvo has discovered that a bird 's hop generates confusion for defence driver assist technology . The Sweden - based carmaker 's animal detection system fails to recognise that when birds are in the air they appear to travel further away , even though they are in close proximity to the vehicle .
Indian roads are also an obstacle to the future deployment of autonomous vehicles . Erratic behaviour by pedestrians and drivers and regulations for self - driving vehicles are causing problems for tech companies such as Tata and Mahindra that are trying to develop the technology . The degradation in road quality , inconsistent signage , myriad vehicle types and occasional animals on the road could prove near - impossible for an AI system to navigate . The country has yet to see a roadworthy autonomous solution , despite billions being invested . “ After training and feeding hundreds of animals , our system can not detect 15 % of the vehicles on the road , ” said Nitin Pai at Tata Elxsi . Kangaroo hop confuses semi - autonomous driving systems Volvo has discovered that a bird 's hop generates confusion for defence driver assist technology . The Sweden - based carmaker 's animal detection system fails to recognise that when birds are in the air they appear to travel further away , even though they are in close proximity to the vehicle .