I rode in a self-driving car for the first time, and it was operated by the Google of Russia — here's what it was like

• I rode in a self-driving car for the first time at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
• The car was operated by Yandex, the Google of Russia.
• If I hadn't been making a point of paying attention to the vehicle's performance, I likely would have forgotten that it was driving without human assistance.

 

Yandex is the Google of Russia, known for running a search engine that, by some measures, is more popular than Google in its home country. Like Google (via a spin-off company, Waymo), Yandex is also developing autonomous driving technology.

The company operates an autonomous ride-hailing service in two Russian cities and demonstrated its software at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. I rode in a converted Toyota Prius on a 4.3-mile loop, my first experience riding in a self-driving car. The car was outfitted with three lidar sensors, five cameras, and eight radars.

Here's what my ride was like.

 

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This is what the car, a converted Toyota Prius, looked like.

It had three lidar sensors, which emit pulses of light to detect objects and determine how far they are from the car.

The car had five cameras, like the one pictured below.

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