The Indian automotive industry is on the edge of disruption due to increasing automation, new business models and digitization. This disruption is also through innovation and transformational change as industry players are adapting to shifting preferences on car ownership and new technological developments such as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), IoT, cloud and proliferation electric and connected vehicles. Apart from electric and connected vehicles, the auto industry is also adopting technologies like cloud and IoT to improve the driving experience. From design and operation to servicing, cloud technology will be increasingly used at every stage to reduce costs and eliminate any scope for wastage. Cloud computing enables better vehicle engineering and thanks to advanced analytic capabilities, design teams can deliver exactly what customers want.

As more carmakers adopt "over the air (OTA)" software updates for their increasingly connected and autonomous cars, is the risk of hacker hijack also increasing? Imagine jumping in your car but being taken somewhere you didn't want to go - into oncoming traffic, say, or even over a cliff. That may seem like an extreme scenario, but the danger is real. Hackers showed two years ago that they could remotely take control of a Chrysler Jeep. And earlier this year, Tesla boss Elon Musk warned about the dangers of hackers potentially taking control of thousands of driverless cars.

In the Internet of Things (IoT), formerly unconnected devices are wirelessly linked to the Internet so that they can report and collect data or automate systems. It's fairly clear that the IoT will soon be a multitrillion-dollar business, with estimates of its size reaching 11 trillion to 19 trillion a year by 2025, according to McKinsey and Cisco. And one of the most important industries for IoT is the automotive market. Connected cars, autonomous driving systems, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and a host of other technologies are driving huge changes for carmakers, and the IoT has a hand in them all. By 2020, consultancy Gartner estimates that nearly 250 million cars will be connected to the Internet, and PriceWaterhouseCooper forecasts that the connected car market will be worth 149 billion by that year.