The driverless car project was led by the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) at NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi.

Fitted with AI, robotics, LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and radar sensors, engineers transformed an imported Chinese electric vehicle into a fully autonomous car.

The team believes deploying the technology locally could help minimize road accidents. In Pakistan, there were nearly 9,400 road accidents reported in 2023, according to Pakistan's National Transport Research Centre. Over half of them were fatal.