the government will be upgrading its automobile testing infrastructure for effective testing of newtech vehiclesofficials privy to the development told et that the focus is on developing infrastructure that is equipped to test vehicles with the latest technology including ones that are internetenabled and one that entails lower wait time for approving military vehiclesimproving electric vehicle ev testing and assessing the impact of radiation due to electrical components in vehicles is also on the cardsthere are many new technologies that are now being introduced in cars a senior government official said almost 40 of all new vehicles are just electronics and the testing infrastructure needs to be upgraded to better rate them advt manish raj singhania president of the federation of automobile dealers associations fada said the indian car and twowheeler market has seen the advent of techenabled vehicles that are more connected with the internet we need to make vehicles safer in every aspect for the consumer the menace of electric vehicles evs catching fire is a recent incident where it was established that better testing standards are required he saidstricter compliance and testing norms were introduced last year for ev twowheelers after instances of spontaneous combustion in the vehicles were reportedaccording to rahil gupta cofounder and chief technology officer cto of twowheeler seller hop electric the number and nature of sensors and electronics used in vehicles has evolved considerably but the regulations and testing infrastructure are trying to play catch up he saidbesides evs two and fourwheeler majors in india have been launching connected vehicles in the countrywe also want to assess how the new vehicles are communicating with each other and want to nullify any potential hazards from the features the official saidregulations for new technologies being adopted by vehicles is a subject being globally deliberated uponaccording to ravi g bhatia president of jato dynamics an automotive market research company internet connectivity features in cars and twowheelers are a fairly new aspect he said that instances of hackers taking control of internetconnected vehicles are being flagged globally raising concerns about robustness of infrastructure that links to cars or twowheelers advt another issue is related to data being shared through internetconnected vehicles bhatia said that original equipment manufacturers oems want to monetise information related to driver behaviour and vehicle location according to him the ethics of the exercise need to be examined guard rails should to be developed around this he said by twesh mishra et bureau published on apr 12 2023 at 0817 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download