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According to foreign media reports, on February 14 local time, yandex, a Russian technology giant, released its financial statements for the fourth quarter of 2019, saying that so far, its cars have traveled 2 million miles, twice the figure released in October and four times the figure released in August. (photo source: yandex) in addition, yandex also disclosed for the first time that it has invested $35 million in the project since it launched the autopilot project. Last year, it invested $24 million, and in the fourth quarter alone, it invested $9 million. Yandex's on-demand transport subsidiary, Yandex.Taxi, launched the autopilot project in May 2017. Shortly after that, the automatic driving test on the road in Moscow began. Over the years, the company extended its automated driving test fleet to Russia, Israel (Tel Aviv) and the United States (Las Vegas). In 2018, the company also launched a pilot service in innopolis, a Russian town, and said it was the first company to provide public automatic driving network car Hailing service. Yandex doubled the mileage of autopilot within 2 million months, reaching 2 million miles. However, one of the main drivers of the result has been the rapid expansion of its fleet, with the number of vehicles deployed by the company in all markets growing nearly tenfold last year to 110. In the race of autopilot cars on a large scale, "Miles-driven" has become a key index to measure the progress and safety of automatic driving technology. Alphabet's Waymo has recently announced that its autopilot has been running 20 million miles. However, many question the wisdom of relying solely on this indicator. For example, driving a million miles on the same 100 mile road will not teach the autopilot software how to drive in different situations. Mileage driving environment is essential for the establishment of reliable safety indicators for automatic driving vehicles. This is also part of the reason that Yandex extended its automatic driving program to other parts of the world. However, the company did not break the record of the "detachment" rate of the automatic driving system, that is, the time taken by the safety driver to take over the control time of the vehicle. This indicator may be useful because the lower the disengagement rate, the better the autopilot software will perform on the road in dealing with difficult "extreme situations.". However, detachment rate is not a perfect safety indicator because the safety of autopilot is also related to driving conditions and road conditions. However, this indicator is still a useful signal for evaluating the development of automatic driving vehicle system. Therefore, there should be reservations about yandex's recent milestones. However, although the auto industry is still looking forward to a better assessment of research progress and safety standards for autopilot cars, "mileage" helps to highlight how much resources a company has invested in autopilot projects. For Yandex, it drives about 500 thousand miles every two months.