The Russian government has approved an experimental launch of unmanned cargo transportation on the M-11 Neva highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg. This was reported by RIA Novosti, citing a source in the transport industry and a resolution by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.
The official instructed the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to formulate proposals on the “digital sandbox” regime for drones by February 2022. In addition, the Ministry of Economic Development must, by April 2022, prepare a draft government decree on the launch of autonomous cars in an experimental legal regime.
It is planned to speed up unmanned cargo transportation within the framework of the Ministry of Transport’s “Unmanned Logistic Corridors” project – testing of trucks in unmanned mode will begin in 2022 at certain sections of the M-11.
According to Deputy Minister Kirill Bogdanov, this will be the first step towards large-scale commercial use of drones along the entire highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg from 2024, as well as the launch of autonomous transportation on 19.5 thousand kilometers of federal highways between Asia and Europe by 2030.
The concepts of experimental legal regimes or “digital sandboxes” have been introduced into Russian legislation since January 2021 and are designed to accelerate the introduction of digital technologies by creating the necessary legal conditions for this. They allow in practice to test new services and services while new legal norms are still being formed. The first swallows in the digital sandboxes were Yandex UAV taxis. Also, the launch of delivery by drones in the Tomsk region and in the Far East is being prepared.
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