I gave you several specific examples from past history so that you can understand how it has taken longer for changes to happen. And moreover, when did i quote 20 years or provide any other time? In one of my posts, I told the time taken will depend on many factors. I did not give any timelines as we are not talking about anything specific. I gave examples that took nearly 20 years because you said it will not take for anything to be completed in 5, 10 or 20 years.Neshant wrote:As I said, you need to erase from your mind the idea that things take 20 years to finish because they don't. I've been on teams where an entire rather complicated product was built by a team of 6 (competent) people and I've been on projects where even with 50 guys on the force, things moves at a glacial pace. The difference is one of bad management and/or incompetent people.devaraj_d wrote: If you give me specific examples of how something complex (except IT and semiconductor industry) was accomplished in a very short time frame in India I can then understand your basis of arguments. Otherwise I am not understanding where you are getting those time lines.
Unless its deep level R&D like some particle physics discovery or something wholly revolutionary that hasn't been done before, nothing is a 20 year process. Needless to say a workable, decent car isn't something years ahead of its time. It does not fit in that category as its largely a medium tech item.
There may be some issues with getting around patents which major manufacturers might have filed up the wazoo but again its not something insurmountable from the engineering prespective. Maybe from the chemistry prespective with catalytic converters and such but I'm largely clueless in that area.
Once again, get rid of the idea of the 20 year saga or you'll never progress. 20 years of guys sitting around sipping coffee and dragging their feet is not a model of development you should have in your mind. Anything you aim to develop should start with an interm goal of a rapid prototype to get a somewhat working version of a gizmo and then improve on it (rapidly) thereafter with trials and end user feedback.
If everything is so easy as you describe history will be entirely different. In WW2 the Japanese had a different approach to aircraft engines because of their manufacturing limitations. Even now it is still valid in almost all areas.
Who is going to buy this-also-can-work-gizmo? TATA burnt their fingers when they rushed the first Indica.
I am sorry I will not accept your arguments unless it is specific with some examples.