Ola Electric CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal challenges Elon Musk’s Tesla autopilot technology in India

CEO of Ola Electric, Bhavish Aggarwal takes on Twitter to reply to a Twitter user who shares the video of how deep learning models struggle with out-of-distribution data.

The user tweeted, “A friend just shared this with me. A great example for how deep learning models struggle with out-of-distribution data. I wonder how many carriages the model has seen during training .”

Aggarwal replies to the video by tweeting,” my sympathies with any Tesla trying to run their autopilot on Indian roads India will need its own engineered solutions .”

😅 my sympathies with any Tesla trying to run their autopilot on Indian roads 😄😄

India will need its own engineered solutions 🇮🇳 https://t.co/sOuRijQj8b

— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) August 16, 2022

Aggarwal is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder of Olas Cabs and Ola Electric. He was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018. 

Aggarwal was born and brought up in Ludhiana city, Punjab, in a Punjabi Hindu family. He finished his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008.

He started off his career with Microsoft, where he worked for two years, filed two patents, and published three papers in international journals.

In January 2011 he co-founded Ola Cabs with Ankit Bhati in Bengaluru.