Yandex self-driving car

The company's semi-solid state lidars can recognize objects as far as 500 meters away and are capable of changing the scanning pattern on-flight.

These include lidar cloud filtering from snowflakes reflections, and measuring coefficient of friction for speed and maneuver planning.

[8] The prototype vehicle was a heavily modified Toyota Prius+ hybrid wagon/compact MPV equipped with three Lidar optical distance sensors by Velodyne Lidar, six radar units, and six cameras and a GNSS sensor for navigation, with Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs[9] using the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel.

[20] In January 2019, demo rides were offered to guests of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

[23] In March 2019, the company partnered with Hyundai Motor Company to develop self-driving car components including control systems for level 4 and level 5, the categories of automation defined as requiring limited to no human intervention, with possible expansions of the venture to areas such as speech, navigation, and mapping technologies, and for technologies for use by other manufacturers.

[29][30][31] In October 2019, the company's self-driving cars passed 1 million miles in fully autonomous driving.

[35] In April 2020, the company launched delivery robots in Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast for uses by city employees.

[39] In June 2020, the company presented the fourth generation of its self-driving cars, based on the Hyundai Sonata.

[40][41][42] In August 2020, the company opened an autonomous vehicle testing center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[1] In March 2022, the company paused operations in the United States, including its robotaxis in Ann Arbor and its partnership with Grubhub, as a result of international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.