Forget about that. This is a video of a car barely managing to properly drive in an empty parking lot. Google had released a video of a car driving through streets back in 2009. 8 years later they just now feel ready enough to do public tests.

Just wanted to bring some perspective about how big the journey is from doing a simple drive on video to having something that works well enough to be publicly deployed. We all saw what happened when Uber tried to publicly test way too early.

Yea that did seem weird. Also as far as collision avoidance, shouldn't the car come to a complete stop if a van pulls out in front of it instead of just trying to move around it? What would happen if the van kept going?

I hope this is an early prototype.

Remember, this is Russia we're talking about - or haven't you watched any of those dashcam videos? If it drove what we in the West think of as "normal", it would probably cause more accidents, not less.

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Well, van stopped and yandex was slow enough to stop if necessary. Human would drive exactly the same way, I think. You won't go far away if you would give a way to every van who's trying to push his nose before you.

It's an early prototype, stay tuned!