"KAMAZ" will produce cars with modern systems assist the driver by 2020

General Director of JSC "KAMAZ" (part of state Corporation rostec) Sergey Kogogin made a presentation at the session "the Era of drones in transportation. What's next?" held at the St. Petersburg international economic forum.



Recall that KAMAZ is already testing unmanned truck, which is created in cooperation with JSC "VIST Group" and Cognitive Technologies. Car, features multiple modes of motion: this is a remote control, movement along a predetermined route using a navigation system, an automatic movement according to the known route to the landfill, as well as an automatic movement for the leading vehicle.

According to Mr. Kogogin, by 2020 it is planned the production of pilot batches of long-haul tractors with modern systems of the driver assistance (ADAS) class "independent management" and buses for travelling on fixed routes. Even sooner, in 2017, it is planned to produce the first robotic vehicles for emergency situations, in 2018 — robotic chassis "KAMAZ" for the mining industry.



The head of the company said that with the development in Russia of intelligent transport systems open up the prospects for substantial improvement in road infrastructure. This reduction of waiting time of transport by 30 %, reducing the number of road accidents by 40 %, fuel economy by 20 %.

However, while problems exist with the implementation of projects for the development of Autonomous vehicles. Among the main today — the lack of so-called "smart" roads and, as a consequence, the need to provide roads intelligent systems. published

 

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