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Christened Vahana, the craft can carry a single passenger or cargo and seeks to enable opening up of urban airways in a predictable and controlled manner.

Recent times have shown us that the Indian car market is getting ready to move towards vehicles with cleaner and a more sustainable fuel source. Though very niche, there is a market for hybrid and electric cars in India which has been explored by companies like Toyota, Mahindra and very recently Volvo.

India has sought advanced environment-friendly technology from Germany to scrap old polluting vehicles and processing the waste generated by it, besides manufacturing cars to run on flex-fuel, the government today said.

Infiniti has announced that, if local regulations permit, the company's autonomous car could hit the road in Hong Kong by 2020.

Electric vehicles could account for two-thirds of all cars on the road by 2030 in wealthy cities such as London and Singapore due to stricter emissions regulation.

With the steering wheel turning on its own and radar and camera technology guiding it, a driverless car took to Britain's streets for the first time on Tuesday, as part of trials aimed at getting autonomous vehicles onto the roads by 2020.

Mercedes-Benz claims that its self-driving cars will be programmed to give precedence to occupants' safety over pedestrians.

What youre looking at is Rinspeeds Oasis concept. Its a small hatchback developed primarily for urban areas that can seat two people and of course its pure electric and autonomous. The creator says that the Oasis concept can be described as the trendy buddy of Star Wars icon R2D2 due to its almost zero turning radius, which is why we said at the very beginning about it being for the urban areas.