ECOMOTION BOOKLET 2019 - TOWARDS THE TIPPING POINT

PLATINUM PARTNERS

A groundbreaking automotive project to make driving safer than it’s ever been. Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered bymachine learning. In addition to being one of theworld’smost popular search engines, the company offers market-leading on-demand transportation services, navigationproducts, andothermobile applications for millions of consumers across the globe. Yandex has been listed on the NASDAQ since 2011. An autonomous vehicle is a safe vehicle. It requires no human driver – you are transported to your destination by a system that never gets tired, distracted, or upset. It’s aware of its surroundings more than 200 meters away in 360 degrees and detects details that even the most experienced human drivers will miss. Yandex autonomous vehicle technology knowswhere it is located, perceives its environment, predicts howotherswill bemoving through it, andplans its ownmovements accordingly. The technology canbe applied toany existing • Cameraspoint ineverydirection fromthecar, acquiringvisual information about traffic signs, other vehicles, etc. This helps the car form a better overall picture of its surroundings than a human ever could. • LIDARs emit laser beamswhile rotating 360degrees, producing a highly accurate 3Dmodel of the environment. • Radars monitor car surroundings, measuring the proximity of other objects and their speed. • GNSS receivers process positional signals from GLONASS and GPS. Combining it with LIDARs, cameras, and IMUs, the car continuously tracks its location with centimeter-level precision. vehicle, making travel safer and more accessible to all. HOWYANDEX DRIVERLESS CARS SEE THEWORLD

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ECOMOTION BOOKLET 2019