The first taxi without a driver may appear in Moscow in 2024

The first autonomous taxi without a driver can travel the roads of Moscow in 2024, Deputy Transport Minister Alexei Semenov said. Now in the Russian capital, as part of an experiment, more than a hundred unmanned vehicles of Yandex are being tested, but the driver must be behind the wheel of the car. The cost of rides in an unmanned taxi will be cheaper than a taxi ride with a driver behind the wheel, said Anton Shingarev, director of corporate relations at Yandex.

In 2018, an experiment was launched on the operation of unmanned vehicles on public roads in Moscow and Tatarstan. So, in the capital, the unmanned vehicles are tested mainly in the Ramenki area, on Michurinsky Prospect, the southern backup of Kutuzovsky and Komsomolsky Prospekt, as well as in the Central Administrative District. In Moscow, Yandex and MADI are testing their developments on public roads, in Tatarstan, on the factory territory, KAMAZ. At the moment, the list of regions where the testing can be conducted has been expanded to 13 regions (Vladimir, Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Samara regions, St. Petersburg, etc. have been added).