TCS accelerates to get autonomous cars on road

Tata Consultancy Services has trained and tested its cloud-based self-driving vehicle platform using over 300,000 kilometres of real time vehicle data across different geographies to help OEMs power their next-generation vehicles onto roads.

- SURAJEET DAS GUPTA

The geographies included the US, Japan, and Europe, and India. The Tata group has numerous companies working in the technology space in electric vehicles as well as in the autonomous space. These include Tata Technologies (which works closely with Tata Motors) and Tata Elxsi, apart from TCS. TCS has been working with leading global OEMs in Japan, Europe and the US on autonomous and electric vehicles. In India, it is helping OEMs to launch their electric cars with autonomous features in the domestic market.

Rajendra Chougule, head automotive, centre of excellence, Internet of Things and DE at TCS, told Business Standard that TCS' algorithms are trained and tested with 300,000 kilometres of real time vehicle data.

"While we have done a few thousand kilometres in India, most of the testing and data collection and analysis has been done in the US, Japan and Europe," said Chougule.