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 It took the efforts and talent of over 75 students from <keyword id="6355690" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT-Bombay">IIT-Bombay</keyword> to make a racing car, which is now set to enter the <keyword id="3383991" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Formula-Student-UK-competition">Formula Student UK competition</keyword>, where similar models designed by over 100 student teams from across the globe would also take part. 
 ORCA, the car made by the <keyword id="3383988" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT-B-racing-team">IIT-B racing team</keyword> took nine months to get designed, and was sponsored by NRB Bearings, Tata Motors, CEAT Tyres and others. 
 "With an acceleration of 0-100kmph in 3.47 seconds, ORCA is faster than any other sports car made by Porsche, Tesla or Audi. Not only is its acceleration a record, it is the first time we have a special steel-frame chassis with carbon-fibre manufactured body, which not only reduces the weight but also stabilises the car at high speeds," said <keyword id="3383989" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rishabh-Kappasia">Rishabh Kappasia</keyword>, a 4th-year student of Engineering Physics at IIT-B, who leads Team ORCA. 
 "The car is awesome to drive thanks to its light weight, and its stability increases at high speeds," added <keyword id="3383990" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Manthan-Mahajan">Manthan Mahajan</keyword>, another 4th-year student who gets behind ORCA’s wheels every time the team participates in a competition. 
 
Formula Student UK competition is an annual car competition where a panel judges the best electric and IC engine cars on the basis of several parameters like engineering and presentation skills. The IIT-B team has been participating in the annual event over the past five years, and has also received the FS award for design improvement for three consecutive years, being the only team to have done that. 
 
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IIT-Bombay students have made India’s fastest sports car ORCA

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/57425850.cms" />There seems to be a global race of sorts to build self-driving cars, with biggies like Tesla, Uber and Google leading the race. And now, India has also decided to jump in, with three top colleges of the country joining hands to do the same. 
 
Kharagpur, Kanpur and Bombay branches of Indian Institutes of Technology have deployed their teams to work on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/self-driving-car-startups-could-be-creating-a-bubble-in-silicon-valley/articleshow/57136377.cms">driverless cars</a> and as expected, Indian automotive companies are showing interest in the project. 
 
Even though the names of the companies were not disclosed, sources said that all major auto companies are involved with the three institutes. 
 
"We are developing technology for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/self-driving-cars-are-already-deciding-who-to-kill/articleshow/56244211.cms">driverless cars</a> keeping the Indian market in mind, in contrast to the global tech majors who are building and testing technologies in the Western market," <keyword id="6364832" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT-Kharagpur">IIT Kharagpur</keyword>'s Debashish Chakravarty, head of the autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) project, told <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/engineering/three-iits-join-hands-to-build-self-driving-cars/articleshow/57419669.cms">ET</a>. 
 
While students at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/from-one-engineer-to-other-sundar-pichaisadvice-to-students-at-iit-kharagpur/articleshow/56388875.cms">IIT Kharagpur</a> are testing autonomous vehicles that they have built from scratch in their campus, those at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Same-face-same-marks-same-college-same-course-Twins-who-have-made-it-to-IIT-Kanpur-have-a-LOT-IN-COMMON/articleshow/53336240.cms">IIT Kanpur</a> are also planning to build its own <keyword id="1044059" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="autonomous-vehicle">autonomous vehicle</keyword>. 
 Similarly, <keyword id="61708" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT-Bombay">IIT Bombay</keyword> students are also running the pilot testing of the autonomous vehicle in their campus. 
 
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All three institutes are also individually designing a prototype vehicle using outsourced 3D laser sensor lidar, so that they can have advanced road detection, a feature crucial for autonomous vehicles. Other than these sensors, everything is being built in the campuses itself. 
 
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