India’s proposed mandate for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication from October 2028 is set to change how automakers develop and test safety systems. But before vehicles can talk to each other on Indian roads, engineers need to make sure those conversations work when traffic gets messy.

India recorded 1.83 lakh road fatalities in 2025, around 6,000 more than the previous year. Against this backdrop, the government’s proposed V2V mandate aims to enable vehicles to exchange information such as position, speed, and movement, allowing connected safety systems to warn vehicles about potential collisions and other hazards.

But testing such systems exclusively on public roads is neither practical nor safe.

Andreas Gau, CEO of dSPACE India Solutions, and Brenton Jude Pereira, Head of Business Development and Marketing, explained to YourStory how simulation is helping automakers address this challenge as vehicles become increasingly software-defined.

“What works in Japan or Germany simply won't work in India,” Pereira said, pointing to the fundamentally different driving environment engineers have to account for here—from two-wheelers moving between lanes and agricultural vehicles to livestock, unmarked intersections and unpredictable obstacles.

The challenge becomes even greater when V2V and V2X systems are expected to make split-second safety decisions.

Founded in Germany in 1988, dSPACE entered India in 2009 initially through DynaFusion. In 2023, the company set up its operations in India under dSPACE India Solutions Private Limited, and currently employs over 160 engineers in India, with the team split between engineering, software development, sales, and support. Generating almost Rs 200 crore in local revenue, the company serves traditional automotive clients, commercial vehicle manufacturers, defense, aerospace, and EV startups.

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