Russia is lagging behind with the introduction of unmanned vehicles

27 February 2019

In the ranking of KPMG, the country fell in four places on the preparedness for the introduction of drones

According to prepared by one of Russia's largest audit and consulting Agency KPMG study – our power went down in the ranking of countries ' readiness to use unmanned vehicles to 22nd place out of 25, within a year lost four positions. The reasons for this lie in the insufficient level of investment and international cooperation and the lag with changes in legislation and the appearance in the ranking of the countries have players who have already embarked on quite mashtabnykh proektov the introduction of Autonomous vehicles. However, a number of our players in this area with estimates KPMG does not agree.
The company has estimated the total state policy and specific changes in the legislation in this area, and the level of consumer confidence in Autonomous vehicles (electric vehicles), availability of technology and innovation and infrastructure development. As a result, Russia ranked last in terms of level of access to the latest technology and penultimate, as the road network.

In addition, our country is lagging behind in terms of support by the regulatory authorities of innovative technologies, for example, the area coverage of the country's advanced mobile communications network and the Internet, at least the level of 4G (as the lower level for the operation of drones is simply not acceptable in principle, and in the near future will be the network-level 5G (and an even more distant and 6G!), which we are still only talking about ed.) and unimportant partnerships between automakers and technology providers.

While our population is already "whole soul" is ready to transplant to a stand – alone transport- according to this criterion we walked in honor of the five leading countries.

With the number of newcomers, olesnevich Russia this year, including Norway, Czech Republic, Israel, Finland and Hungary, whose governments already stimulate enough large-scale projects for the development of Autonomous vehicles. As explained by the head of practice on work with infrastructure and transportation enterprises, KPMG in Russia and CIS Alexey Romanenko: "In Russia, steps are being taken both at the legislative level and at the level of individual companies (such as "Yandex"), but for the pilot technology transfer into commercial operation required a much larger investment, changes in legislation, active international cooperation".
Director of business development for unmanned vehicles "Yandex" Artem Fokin, in turn, said: "In the Netherlands, which ranked first, simultaneously with Russia at the end of 2018 allowed to test bespilotniki on public roads without an engineer in the driver's seat. Although the holding of such tests in the Netherlands, for example, we have not heard. While in Russia last year there was at least two test zones for drones in SKOLKOVO and Innopolis, where they can be ordered through the app like a normal taxi." So, according to him, the KPMG study raises questions both in its methodology and the conclusions.

Co-head of the working group "AutoNet" National technology initiative (NTI) Alexander Gurko says: "In this study not reported landfill on the territory of FGUP US to test the technology of connected and automated transportation. It testing projects 13 companies, including KB "Aurora", Moscow state automobile and road technical University, the University Innopolis, Scientific design Bureau of computer systems. In addition, "Yandex" and KAMAZ plan to start pilot testing on public roads, as the government razreshila an experiment in November 2018".
GK President Cognitive Technologies Olga Uskov considers that: "the results of the study raise serious questions in a professional environment, but, in General, the position of our country is valued highly. Actually in Russia no system of measures aimed at the development of the industry, is not carried out. And as far as I know, real plans in the area of legislative regulation of the industry at present". She also concludes: "the Experiments of the state in this area have not yet stand up to scrutiny of the professional community and not make a real contribution to the development of the market."

Index of countries ' readiness* to use unmanned road transport
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Rating	Country	Final index**
1	Netherlands	25,05
2	Singapore	24 and 32
3	Norway	23,75
4	USA	22,58
5	Sweden	of 22.48
6	Finland	22,28
7	UK	of 21.58
8	Germany	21,15
9	UAE	of 20.69
10	Japan	of 20.53
21	Hungary	11,99
22	Russia	of 8.55
23	Mexico	7,73

According to KPMG among 25 countries* integrated indicator* assessments of policies and legislation, technologies and innovations, infrastructure development and level of adoption of unmanned vehicles by the consumers, our country can claim only on the penultimate place. Obviously on this topic we not only roads in the way.


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