NAMI: Testing ground for self-driving cars

2023: Creation of a landfill for 4.5 billion rubles

Subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, FSUE NAMI will create a testing ground for autonomy technologies for automotive equipment. Deputy Minister Albert Karimov spoke about this on July 10, 2023.

We expect that by 2025 this landfill will be launched. Its main task will be just testing all technologies of unmanned movement, standardization. In the future, so that it can be certified for compliance. This is to create the necessary regulatory framework, - he said (quote from TASS).

NAMI will create a testing ground for unmanned vehicles for 4, 5 billion rubles

According to him, 4.5 billion rubles were allocated from the state budget for the creation of the landfill. By July 2023, the first stage of the project is already being implemented, he added.

In early June 2023, the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Vasily Shpak reported that the Ministry of Industry and Trade and NAMI plan to create a training ground for testing smart vehicles, trams and agricultural machinery. According to the director of the St. Petersburg "Gorelektrotransport," a total of three landfills will be created: one (for testing unmanned vehicles) - in Moscow, two more (for testing autonomy technologies for rail transport and agricultural machinery) - in St. Petersburg.

By July 10, 2023, Moscow already has a similar testing ground for unmanned vehicles. The 400 m long track was built in the Caliber technopark on Godovikov Street in the Ostankino district of the capital. The landfill was made to look like ordinary city streets. Bus stops, pedestrian crossings and road signs were installed on it. In addition, unmanned taxis can already be found on the streets of Moscow. For example, in the districts of Yasenevo and Khamovniki. For example, in the districts of Yasenevo and Khamovniki.^[1]

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