Russia’s Yandex looks at 10-fold increase in driverless car fleet to speed up testing

A self-driving car owned and tested by Yandex company driving along a road during a presentation in Moscow, Russia. — Reuters

MOSCOW: Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000 within the next two years in order to speed up tests on the fledgling technology.

Yandex hopes to start testing more than 100 of its self-driving cars on roads by the end of this year. It already has a fleet of 90 cars, 35 of which are being tested on Moscow's roads with a Yandex engineer present.