The car is owned by the company Yandex, who have a history in information technology. Some feats include becoming Russia’s search engine of choice with a 52% market share, they have an online music service, social networking sites and most notably, and one that relates to today’s video, a Maps service which includes GPS support. This is where their self driving car comes in. They gave their first rides in the US, and Nick and I were among the first to experience the futuristic technology. Now, the only experience we’ve had with self driving cars here in the UK are horror stories coming from testing these vehicles. Now nothing scary happened on our ride, but it was a very odd feeling sitting in the back of a car with no driver. Nick and I, along with two reps were crammed into a Toyota Prius. Not the biggest of cars, but roomy enough. There was a rep in the middle seat, and an engineer in the front passenger seat, as laws state there must be a ‘resonsible person’ inside the car. L...
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