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It has been 5 days from the start of Dakar 2020 Rally in Saudi Arabia.

Almost half of the route has been completed and the KAMAZ-Master team shows brilliant results at every stage!

Here’s what’s happened over the previous 5 stages:
1. At the first stage of Jeddah – Al-Wajh in the trucks competition, Anton Shibalov’s crew finished first.
2. On the second day at the Al-Vajh – Neom stage, the crews of Dmitry Sotnikov and Andrey Karginov came second and third respectively, losing to the leader Sergey Vyazovich (MAZ, Belarus) 1:46 and 2:07 min.
3. At the third Neom – Neom stage KAMAZ truck led by Andrey Karginov became the leader.
4. At the stage number four Neom – Al-Ula the crew of Anton Shibalov came first, Dmitry Sotnikov’s and Andrey Karginov’s crews were second and third.
5. At the 5th Al-Ula-hail stage Dmitry Sotnikov, Anton Shibalov and Andrey Karginov became leaders. We are so proud!

To date, according to the results of 5 stages, Andrey Karginov takes the leading position with a total time of 20:10:02
Anton Shibalov’s crew takes the 2nd place with a lag of 14:53 minutes.
Dmitry Sotnikov takes the 7th position.

We follow the KAMAZ-master team and wish you success!

Do you know where the birthplace of KAMAZ-Master is?

That’s right, our hometown is Naberezhnye Chelny, the Republic of Tatarstan. Here the KAMAZ-Master team is based, high-tech trucks are created, pilots are prepared for competitions.
In 2007, team’s got its own building and before moving to the current sports center we huddled in a tight corner of the scientific and technical center of KAMAZ.

Unmanned KAMAZ truck launched at the “Listvyazhnaya” mine in the framework of the “Digital mining enterprise” innovative project. Its result should be the creation of an entire system of unmanned transportation of coal in the Kuzbass by December 2020. “I drove in the cab of this KAMAZ, which controls itself independently”, – shared his impressions the Deputy Governor of Kuzbass for Industry, Transport and Ecology Andrey Panov, calling the trip unusual and comparing the feeling with the realities of the future.
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The system of autonomous driving in the KAMAZ-43118 makes it possible to transport cargo without drivers or increase working time due to the active driver assistance system, saving operating costs, eliminating the human factor.
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The list of functions of the truck – adaptive cruise control with the “stop and go” function, intelligent speed limit, automated traffic, obstacle avoidance, assistance in changing lanes, cruise control with response to terrain and much more. The truck is able to overtake with further restructuring, traffic on road signs, travel intersections.
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The vehicle control unit consists of four multi-megapixel machine vision cameras, four lidars, two radars, four inertial assemblies, two high-precision satellite navigation receivers, a 16-channel sonar sensor system and other equipment. Machine vision provides the probability of building and performing a safe route at the level of at least 99.99%.
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Test operation of the latest technology will continue until the end of January 2020.