| |October 20189CIOReviewown a car and also less likely to cook at home or drive a car. They will believe more in pay per use. The mo-bile phones will gradually emerge as a single tool for managing their entire utilities requirement including their mobility. The mobility space is likely to get much more integrated through various levels. Car manufactur-ing will just be one of the small parts in the whole chain of mobility. However, cars manufacturers will have to become more proactive to adapt to this change as this shift may take place much faster than anticipated. I am referring to the arrival of more practical and economical electric cars; better connected cars which come equipped with technology that will help customers to use them for car-sharing, car-pooling, or any other form that you can imagine. The electric cars are very likely to become much more efficient and affordable; with the improved scale of production. Probably in the coming decade an electric car will cost similar to a diesel car and with an improved charging infrastructure and future technology will make electric cars charging as simple as filling petrol in your car today. However, I feel driverless cars cannot be practically put on Indian roads in the next 10 years. It can only arrive once the public transport solution is efficiently working. In the next 15 years, the shift in mobility and auto-motive will be similar to the way mobile phones have witnessed; from a tool for calling or messaging to a smart gadget which does everything to do with com-munication or information. The personal mobility space is likely to see a major shift primarily powered by the digital tools for improved aggregation and multimodality options
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