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Yandex Self-Driving Car. Moscow streets after a heavy snowfall

Яндекс Go · 10.7M views · 2018-02-16 · 4:00

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Yandex shows its self-driving taxi navigating snowy Moscow streets after a heavy snowfall, dealing with traffic, pedestrians, parked cars and snowbanks on real roads.

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Cited as evidence that Yandex already runs capable self-driving cars in harsh weather, though some commenters doubted the footage.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2018

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stephengillie · 2018-06 · Recommendation

Yandex Taxi has Youtube videos of their self-driving car. This video of a car navigating a snowy Moscow street is especially impressive [0]. They don't seem to come up in self-driving car discussions on HN. [0] [VIDEO]

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stephengillie · 2018-08 · Reference

Who will fund this idea? Did Musk convince a bank to give him another loan? Edit: Based on this tweet[0], is Yandex involved in the funding? They already have self-driving taxis in Russia[1], so Tesla could give them an entry into the USA market. Or did Elon's twitter password get "haxed"? [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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lnanek2 · 2018-02 · Criticism

I'd love for it to be true, but it's tough to believe that's real. There's one point where a pedestrian is standing in the snow on the road just to the side of where the car would pass: [VIDEO] Wouldn't any pedestrian detection decide the person in the road has priority and stop and let them cross? It isn't capable of reading a person's intention to stand there vs. cross or not. The title claims it supports interactions with pedestrians, and the video does seem to show it pausing in the middle of a turn once for a pedestrian in the road, but that could be easily faked by having the driver still using manual breaks.

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