India, Jan. 10 -- This past week I spent a painfully short amount of time at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held every January in America's 'Sin City' or Las Vegas. And if you get excited by tech, it is an amazing show. Just the sheer multitude of large-screen 8K televisions on display is mind-blowing and some of the stands of giants like LG, Samsung, Sony, Canon, TCL make your jaw drop thanks to sheer complexity of their displays. There are drones, 3D printing, electric cycles and all sorts of robots, so much of it invariably from China. But what has become interesting about CES particularly over the past few years is the number of automakers who attend it.

I was personally a guest of Hyundai Motors and Hyundai wasn't showcasing a ...