Smart road technologies will largely depend on data quality and quantity in the future.
But Land Rover's off-road technology was the more valuable asset for Tata Motors' truck and passenger-car business at home.
The system works on the same principle as the E-ZPass toll-road technology, in which scanners at tollbooths read signals from transponders installed on the windshields of passing vehicles to pay tolls automatically.
On the roads technology and expertise can still give you an edge, but the honours are widely shared because the balance is more heavily weighted towards man rather than machine.
According to Vadime Elisseeff (2000): "Along the Silk Roads, technology traveled, ideas were exchanged, and friendship and understanding between East and West were experienced for the first time on a large scale.
He was instrumental in expanding access to health insurance for children, ensuring that America kept its promises to our veterans, and in bringing home millions in investments for roads, technology, and economic development and health initiatives.
Richardson and Levy stand on opposite sides of a busy road, watching technology speed past towards a clouded horizon.
