{"id":52471,"date":"2025-05-20T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=52471"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:52:50","slug":"bengaluru-based-self-driving-startup-minus-zero-unveils-self-driving-technology-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/bengaluru-based-self-driving-startup-minus-zero-unveils-self-driving-technology-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru-based Self-Driving startup Minus Zero Unveils Self-driving Technology For India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Self-driving has made a big move in the last couple of years abroad &#8212; in the US, autonomous Waymos are <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/tesla-says-its-cars-will-make-their-owners-money-by-becoming-autonomous-taxis-when-not-in-use\/\">completing <\/a>thousands of trips per day in major US cities, and Chinese tech companies have been <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/chinas-baidu-to-deploy-100-fully-autonomous-vehicles-in-dubai-by-end-of-2025\/\">deploying <\/a>autonomous vehicles too. But an Indian company seems to be trying to bring self-driving to to the busy roads of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minus Zero, an AI startup headquartered in Bengaluru, today unveiled its end-to-end autopilot system. The system is engineered to navigate the notoriously complex and unstructured urban traffic conditions prevalent in Indian cities. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cneuralnetwork\/status\/1924766715667456428\">demo video<\/a>, the startup showed off its self-driven car driving the streets of Bengaluru navigating bike riders, street vendors and the odd cow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8-1024x576.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eKd1f8Sp3SZuCgLHLGs8e9kGMS8.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While ~90% of the ADAS products are deployed in few developed countries, >85% of road accidents of the world come from emerging countries, with much more need for such advanced driving assistance systems,&#8221; the company stated in its release. &#8220;At Minus Zero, we understand this unique pain point and technology shift required for building advanced autopilot systems for all the major emerging countries (starting with India).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Navigating with autopilot in busy streets of Bengaluru | Minus Zero\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPRIp1WEFfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of Minus Zero\u2019s technology is its proprietary &#8220;nature-inspired&#8221; AI platform, which mimics human decision-making processes to achieve true Level 5 autonomy\u2014fully driverless vehicles without steering wheels or pedals. Unlike traditional autonomous driving systems that rely on costly sensor suites like LiDAR, radar, and high-definition (HD) maps, Minus Zero\u2019s vision-based system uses a minimalistic array of six cameras to perceive the environment. This approach drastically reduces hardware costs, making autonomy accessible for a broader range of vehicles, from electric to internal combustion engine models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minus Zero was founded in 2020 by Gagandeep Rehal and Gulsimran Kalra. Rehal had graduated from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science, while Kalra had graduated from SRCC in 2021 with a B.Com degree. Two years ago, the company had demonstrated the zPod, a four-seater electric vehicle with inward-facing seats and no conventional controls, which was India\u2019s first fully autonomous vehicle prototype. zPod was not intended for mass production, but served as a proof of concept for automakers to integrate Minus Zero\u2019s AI platform into next-generation vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be years before self-driving is a reality on Indian roads, but Minus Zero has found some backers &#8212; the startup has raised $1.77M in funding\u00a0from\u00a0investors including IIT Mandi\u00a0and\u00a0Chiratae Ventures. Minus Zero aims to be a technology provider, offering its scalable AI platform to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and retrofitting existing vehicles with engine control modules to enable full autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s perhaps for the best that India is coming up with its own self-driving startups. US and Chinese self-driving startups are likely not currently building for the <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/stories\/ola-data-shows-bangalore-really-worst-traffic-country\/\">challenges <\/a>of self-driving on Indian roads including having no marked lanes, widespread traffic violations, and miscellaneous potholes and cattle. Self-driving is an area which needs an India-specific solution, and homegrown companies would do well to build it before India falls too far behind the rest of the world in autonomous driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving has made a big move in the last couple of years abroad &#8212; in the US, autonomous Waymos are completing thousands of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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