The death of industrialist and former Tata Sons chairperson, Cyrus Mistry, in a road accident last Sunday, which took place on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, has opened a Pandora’s box. From what went wrong in the vehicle that the party of four was travelling in—of which two including Mistry died on the spot—to how faulty road engineering played its part in the deadly crash, and how seatbelts in the rear need to be made mandatory, every aspect has been analysed over the last one week.  

Experts say the answer to all these problems is technology. For the last few years, India’s leading tech minds have been working overtime to counter human and mechanical limitations to make the country’s roads safer.