[AutonomousVehicles] Yandex to test self driving taxis in Moscow this year

[Cornelius Butler]

Hi Everyone,
Some international self driving news for you. Yandex, The largest search
engine in Russia, is going to start testing self driving cars in Moscow
this year. Article Link and Text is below.

Article Link:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/russian-tech-firm-yandex-test-self-driving-taxis-moscow-this-year-2021-09-08/

Article Text:
Russian tech firm Yandex to test self-driving taxis in Moscow this year

MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to
travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant
Yandex (YNDX.O) plans to start testing the autonomous vehicles in the city
this year, the company said on Wednesday.

Yandex, which operates a raft of services from online search to food
delivery, has been testing self-driving technology for more than three
years in Russia, Israel and the United States.

Robotaxis will available through the company's Yandex.Go application in one
Moscow district for certain customers, Yandex said in a statement.

"The launch in Yasenevo is the first stage of a large Yandex project to
launch driverless taxis," the company said. "Over time, there will be more
cars, the number of locations you can go to and from will increase, and
ever more people will be able to hail driverless taxis."

Russian legislation does not yet allow driverless vehicles to travel
without a person at the wheel, except in special economic zones, such as
the city of Innopolis in the Tatarstan region.

Restrictions on their use in certain areas of large cities could be
partially lifted after a law came into force this year.

Yandex's fleet of around 170 driverless cars has travelled more than 14
million kilometres. The company also has self-driving robots for food
delivery, which already operate on some U.S. college campuses through a
partnership with online food-ordering company GrubHub . read more

Yandex owns a 73% stake in Yandex Self-Driving Group (SDG) and has agreed
to buy the remaining share from Uber (UBER.N) by the end of the year. read
more

Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by Alexander Marrow and David Gregorio
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