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The Russian company Yandex impress, in the hope of CES delegates, with its self-driving cars

driver-less cars have to show that were a staple of the CES But in The Past , they usually held stationary on the ground.

If the Russian tech giant Yandex has invited me to go for a Ride On the actual streets of Las Vegas in his Model - a redesigned Toyota Prius is Packed with sensors and a big computer in the trunk - I was expecting to be underwhelmed.

I've seen mini-trucks pootle-haul in test speeds, and I have balances in a driverless car with a people very much at The Wheel , the fingers of nervous millimetres from the steering wheel "just in case".

And rightly so - When the Autonomous car tech goes wrong, Tesla, and Uber to both be able to testify,

With All That I had expected to in thoughts, there are no drivers at all.

It is an unpleasant thing, sitting on the back Seat of a car with no one in between you and the windshield, especially When The Vehicle is at a vehicle speed of 40 mph (64 km/h) with a pedestrian in the vicinity.

A Man by the name of Alexei, the "engineer" was in the passenger Seat - it was a "just in case" type.

Alexei had a strange big Red Button that did it, well, a little dramatic, I suppose. They would not let me press.

But as we are traveling with speeds of 44mph on our 20-minute driver-less, we moved to The Streets countless times and negotiated busy intersections on its own without human intervention, Emergency or otherwise.

Yandex has a surprisingly Low Profile in The West , it is often called the "Russian Google". Just like Google, a tech giant with a Finger in many pies. It says most of its revenue still comes from its search engine, the 60% market share in Russia.

The Driver came on the road game in 2016, and has his vehicle on public roads in December 2017. Since then, it is sanded and has the tech on The Streets of Moscow and Tel Aviv.

Yandex fleet has clocked 1. 5 Million Miles (2. 4 million km) of Autonomous driving so far. He is behind the likes of Google Waymo, which had reached More Than 10 million, in July 2019.

"The robot driver that we develop, you can not get distracted," Julia Shveyko, head of media relations for Yandex driverless cars, says to me.

The fleet is already Yandex is a rideshare service in Moscow .

"we have passengers with our app. You go to the University, the Post Office , a grocery store, and it is fully integrated into your typical routines," she adds.

"And what we have seen, is to feel that you in a very quick time period as soon as you feel safe, it starts normally. "

I can't tell you vouch for this one, too, of course - with the exception, the next time I'm in Moscow , I'll try and rock up to a supermarket in a driverless car and see, if no one bats an eyelash.

'must be Intoxicating to admit, on the first"

I, after an exciting first few minutes, it all felt pretty normal.

Later, I decided to do a second driver, travel - time rideshare service Lyft, which is adapted to the fts-travel around Las Vegas in his fleet to the BMW during the CES.

My colleague Cody and I didn't tell them we were journalists, mainly because we couldn't get a word in edgeways, But this was far more cautious journey.

There are two people in The Front , a driver and A Man by the name of Dan, were the rails, a kind of tour guide. The Vehicle was actually in manual mode much of the time. Not all hotels have agreed to, this technique is used, your Private Property , so Getting On and off The Strip , to the necessary human effort.

If you want an opinion about something, ask a taxi driver. So, later, I hopped in a different car, showed The Driver , Steve, a small video I filmed from the Yandex experience and asked him what he thought.

"Driverless cars are, for me, scary," he said.

"I need to be in control, or someone has control, not the computer control. "

Yandex can tell, everyone is happy, hopping in The Driver -less cars in Moscow - But The Mood is colder Elsewhere .

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Source of news: bbc.com