Self-Driving Car Technology To Avoid Cows On Indian Roads

The population of India is the second-largest for any country in the world, trailing only China. The country also has the world's second-largest road network, following the United States. However, the combination of population and road network also leads to a number of traffic accidents in the South Asian country, with over 200,000 deaths caused as a result in 2013, according to estimates by the World Health Organization. One of the factors that lead to road accidents in the country is collisions between vehicles and animals. And while most other animals are chased away from roads, cows -- which are venerated by many Hindus, who form over 80 percent of India's population of over 1.2 billion -- are usually given a free rein to do as they will.