India, Feb. 21 -- Lovely Professional University (LPU) has the vision to be a premier academic institution, recognized internationally for its contribution to industry and society through excellence in teaching, learning, research, internationalization, entrepreneurship and leadership.

The engineering students at LPU have designed and created a unique solar-powered driverless bus. With a maximum speed of 30 km per hour, it has a seating capacity of 10-30 persons, as per needs.

The bus is completely pollution free, and uses only renewable energy in form of electric motor and solar power for propulsion. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication has been used to make the bus driverless. It also uses GPS and Bluetooth for navigation, and could...