The drone of "Yandex" arrived from Moscow to Kazan

22 June 2018

99 % of the way he spent in offline mode

It's been a year since, as "Yandex" for the first time announced the development of its own unmanned vehicle. During this time, the company has several times published videos showing working prototypes. Lately she's been bragging about how her robomobile skillfully maneuvering on the snowy streets of Moscow. Now the smart car made its first long trip.

Unmanned vehicle "Yandex.Taxi" has left Moscow and came to Kazan. The route length of 780 kilometers he traveled for 11 hours. In the driver's seat was always the engineer, ready at any time to take control, but the car was moving independently.

However, without incidents has not managed. In "Yandex" reported that the trip was in automatic mode 99 %. That is 1% still came in manual control. At-style time lapse video is impossible to understand what chances a man had to intervene in the operation of the computer.

Long trip was conceived in order to test the drone in conditions and country movement. The car managed to drive on wide highways, and relatively narrow sections of the route. Over 780 kilometers repeatedly changed the quality of the road surface and markings. Unstable was the weather. Variable driving conditions a good influence on the learning process of the autopilot.