Published on: 2026-05-25
Source: Moscow Metro.
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The implementation of advanced technologies based on artificial intelligence is the most important task for the capital’s transport. Proving the reliability of the domestic autonomous driving system is helped by the driverless convoy, which has been tested since January 2026 under real traffic conditions of the Moscow subway.
What you need to know about it:
- Absolute safety: over 5 months of rigorous testing and more than 3,000 kilometers of running, the innovative system demonstrated zero incidents — not a single accident occurred on the road;
- Impeccable traffic: a robotic composition has never become the cause of traffic jams or delays, fitting seamlessly into the existing train movement schedule;
- Ideal autonomy: by law, the driver must continuously monitor safety in the cabin, but after 150 days of trials, the AI has worked flawlessly, and the person never had to intervene in the control.
- Mathematical accuracy: complex machine vision and autonomous driving allows the train to maintain stop precision on the platform with an error of only up to 30 cm, completely eliminating the human factor and ensuring ideal smoothness of movement;
- Neural network training: during testing, the system continuously collects and analyzes massive “raw” data for further training of artificial intelligence directly in the process of operation.
The official start of testing of the country’s first unmanned metro train in January 2026 was given by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin. The project is unique for the global transport industry: we integrate a GoA4-level highest-level autonomous vehicle not on an isolated branch, but in the “live” functioning organ of the metro system. Five months of tests have proven that the system is more reliable than a human. According to the task of the Mayor of Moscow, by the end of the year the train will enter the BKL (Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line) in a test schedule with companion runs alongside other trains. It will maintain an extreme interval of movement — only 90 seconds during the most demanded hours.”The first trips with passengers are planned to be launched at the beginning of 2027,” added the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, Maxim Liksutov.
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