MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. The cost of driverless freight carriage will drop by 85 by 2035, the Russian Ministry of Transport said.

About 100 driverless trucks are already operating on the M-12 East highway in the Moscow Region, the ministry noted. "The freight transportation cost will be lowered by 8% at the least by 2035; savings for shippers will be 108 bln rubles ($1.3 bln)," it added.

The driverless truck fleet may amount to dozens of thousands of units by 2035, making it possible to make up to 25% of country’s logistics robotic, Russian Transport Minister Andrey Nikitin said earlier.