Yandex has announced a record-breaking trip by a passenger autonomous vehicle on the Moscow — Tula — Moscow route. The total length of the route was nearly 400 km, and the test driver did not intervene in the car's control at any point.
The car operated entirely in autonomous mode thanks to a transformer neural network that predicts the behavior of other road users and builds a trajectory. The car independently performed maneuvers, yielded to public transport, bypassed road work zones, and passed toll booths on the highway via a transponder.
The route passed through the streets of Moscow and Tula, regional roads, and the federal highway M-4 "Don". The route included regulated and unregulated intersections, traffic jams in the city, and open sections of the highway. The trip lasted more than six hours, and a full recording from the cameras is available without editing splices.
Yandex already uses autonomous technologies for commercial transportation: since May 2025, the company's unmanned trucks have transported more than 4,000 tons of cargo for the "Magnit" retail chain on the Kolomna — Tula route, covering more than 130,000 kilometers.
The first tests of Yandex's robotaxi took place in 2023 in the Yasenevo district of Moscow, where the cars made more than 1,700 trips with passengers in three months. In 2026, it is planned to launch 200 robotaxis in Moscow with the possibility of being called via the "Yandex Go" application.
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