The Ministry of Transport will develop a bill on unmanned transport in 2025.

By the end of the year, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation will present a draft federal law on unmanned vehicles, which will be developed jointly with manufacturers of such vehicles and interested government agencies. This was announced by the ministry's press service in its Telegram channel on May 20.

The draft law for the introduction of unmanned vehicles on a permanent basis will include concepts, criteria for distinguishing drones by automation levels, the rights and obligations of manufacturers, and requirements for dispatching. It will provide for provisions on the GLONASS Traffic Monitoring Center currently being created by JSC, which will allow for an emergency stop in case of illegal interference in the system.

According to Artem Yurenkov, director of the Digital Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the legal regulation of unmanned vehicles creates a serious personnel need for both programmers, testers, and lawyers.

Currently, driverless cars are cruising on Russian roads within the framework of experimental legal regimes (EPR). So, since 2023, unmanned truck movement has been carried out on the M-11 Neva. In early April 2025, autonomous trucks entered the Central Ring Road. 67 unmanned trucks have already traveled over 9 million km, the Ministry of Transport said.

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On April 28, Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit announced that self-driving on Russian roads would become commonplace in about five years.

It is planned to bring self-driving cars to public roads in Russia by 2027. The tests of driverless trucks were successful, but it is still necessary to refine the technology and agree on the rules. The main goal is to create uniform rules and infrastructure for the safe use of autonomous transport, the ministry noted.

Prior to that, on April 10, it became known that cargo unmanned vehicles will begin mass production at KAMAZ in 2028. The Naberezhnye Chelny auto giant has provided three unmanned vehicles for moving in the Moscow region — two Mayak-1 trucks and a second-generation Mayak-2 car.