A BRICS partnership project, created in cooperation with Rostec Corporation, Nami (Scientific Research Automobile and Engine Institute) and Hi-Tech Company Yandex. This is a fully automated shuttle, a city bus, running on an electric motor, travelling up to speeds of 60km/h and distances of up to 200km on a single charge. The bus is equipped with surveillance cameras and various sensors. The vehicle's route is not preprogrammed. The route is laid in real time where users establish the pick up destination by means of a mobile phone app.
First prototype displayed at Moscow auto show, a self-driving shuttle bus was displayed by NAMI,
a Russian government-backed automotive research organization. The bus is a result of a partnership between NAMI, Mercedes-Benz’s parent Daimler, heavy-truck manufacturer Kamaz, and Russia’s Internet search engine giant Yandex. Kamaz built the self-driving shuttles, Daimler provided autonomous technology and, according to Fortune, Yandex will contribute its works in computer vision, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and speech recognition.
