Backpacking India On Road

KIA Motors in India with its Kia Seltos 2023 has also jumped into the fray to produce more 'chapri' (squid) drivers for Indian roads by adding the automatic emergency braking feature. Earlier, it was Mahindra XUV700 who had introduced the ADAS feature. Every third person in the driver's seat of an expensive car as these in India is a techie. He has to embrace technology and produce FaBo Reels and YouTube videos with iPhone13 in one hand and a pizza in the other even while the car cruises at anywhere between 40 and 140 kmph. If the owner driver's rank in the state level engineering  entrance exam was 79,463 instead of 27,377 the probability of him trying out the efficacy of the feature seated in the rear seats or in the front passenger seat increases manifold 😡. P.S: Senior Kia officials who are followers of Indian Roadie and associated forums can message me and confirm if I am right in partially mapping the ideal demographic profile of users of the ADAS feature in...

Tesla is almost certain to set up a major export hub in India.  It's all because of the ecosystem that PM Modi, whom I call the CEO cum CMO of India, has created within a short span of 9 years only from 2014 to 2023.  .  .  .  * What Has Modi Done  * Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai  * Indian Roadie News

In New Delhi, I used to ride a 2-wheeler for about a decade before I began driving a car. Now I have been driving a car for over 30 years. Ever since I relocated to Bangalore, for the last 15 years or so, I only drive a car. Given the way the traffic had been behaving, I lost the confidence to ride a 2-wheeler. However, now driving a car in Bangalore is getting tougher by the day. Apart from the increasing density of traffic and dug up roads, the principal cause is the driving habits of 2-wheeler riders. There was always an unwritten norm of maintaining a certain respectable distance from other moving vehicles. I have been experiencing a gradual dilution of this norm. It has now come to a point that many a time, 2-wheeler riders ride so close to my car that my car and the 2-wheeler morph into a third vehicle. When they ride so close to the left of my car, I end up hallucinating enough to strike a conversation as if he is a co-passenger inside the car. Lately, I have had the realization...