<p>This article overviews the history of development of driverless vehicles both in Russia and the World. Foreign experience of development of driverless vehicles, including electric traction, is analyzed. Main stages of creation of experimental NAMI driverless electric vehicle are revised. Main engineering solutions are described concerning development of advanced NAMI driverless electric vehicle, its major components and control systems. Projects aimed at environmental safety of passengers in NAMI driverless electric vehicle are exemplified. Results of bench scale and running tests of NAMI driverless electric vehicle are summarized. Major advantages of driverless energy efficient and environmentally clean transport are demonstrated.</p>

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The research objective is the analysis of results of investigation tests of the information and measuring active safety system developed by FSUE “NAMI”. The practice of operation and performed studies show that modern foreign advanced driver assistance systems do not provide appropriate functioning under severe road and climate conditions of the Russian Federation creating unjustified risks and precluding from preventing a significant number of road accidents. This statement is applicable to driving on slippery surfaces, ice and snow, to the driving mode in traffic jams, in the absence of recognizable road marking, blinding of video cameras, insufficient visibility range and road lighting, etc. In order to ensure competitive ability and commercial attractiveness of the developed domestic information and measuring active safety system, within the scope of this work additional studies were performed regarding improvement of driver status monitoring functions with an expanded vector of the state of the controls and speed range, tire pressure monitoring with an expanded speed range and start-stop driving mode, dangerous obstacle approach warning and detection of deviation from the center of the lane with unrecognizable marking. In this paper, the results of investigation tests of improved functions are considered.