In 2022, the Russian automaker KamAZ intends to release the first four prototypes of unmanned cargo vehicles based on the KamAZ Continent model. The vehicles will be used for test transportation along the M-11 Neva highway. This was announced on February 4 by the press service of the brand.
“We plan that next year we will start the first commercial unmanned cargo transportation in partnership with Russian logistics companies,” said Sergey Nazarenko, Chief Designer for Innovative Vehicles at KamAZ PJSC.
It is noted that as part of the experiment, unmanned trucks will travel more than 20 thousand km by the end of 2022.
The Unmanned Logistics Corridors project, the first stage of which will be the launch of autonomous cargo transportation on the M-11 Neva highway (Moscow – St. Petersburg) no later than 2024, is one of the 42 initiatives of socio-economic development approved by the Russian government until 2030. At the stage of development of the first part of the project, more than 20 largest companies, including PJSC KamAZ, became its participants.
On December 28, it was reported that the NAMI Institute demonstrated a prototype of the unmanned Lada Vesta, on which autonomous driving technologies are being tested.
To date, the car is tested both at the test site and in urban conditions. The machine is equipped with three types of machine “vision” – video cameras, lidars (laser radars that allow you to build a three-dimensional model of the environment) and traditional radars.
Source: IZ
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