Yandex has taken its autonomous cars to the next level of testing - now there is no driver behind the wheel. A tester sits in the passenger seat, but he cannot use the pedals or the wheel.
Yandex started testing in the Moscow Yasenevo district autonomous driving technology with no test driver behind the wheel. This is a new stage in testing the technology that allows the car to move autonomously among the traffic of a big city.
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The tester has the ability to stop the car at the push of a button. Such a stop can be either emergency or planned. The route of the unmanned vehicles runs along the Moscow streets of Yasnogorskaya and Aivazovsky, Solovin passage, Rokotov street, and Lithuanian Boulevard.