Did you know Walmart is testing driverless vehicles?
Main point: “As Walmart looks to compete in retail’s delivery wars against rivals like Amazon, autonomous vehicles will ultimately play an important role in its ongoing strategy of improving delivery times to customers. So too will drones, as the company has already agreed to iniital pilots with a trio of drone companies, including DroneUp and Flytrex.”
Other items in the article:
- “A Walmart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Arkansas, will soon start receiving shipments delivered via a driverless box truck, as part of the retail giant’s expanded pilot with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik.”
- “…the Gatik pilot has logged 70,000 operational miles ‘in autonomous mode’ with a safety driver behind the wheel to monitor deliveries since its launch in 2019.”
- “Walmart’s expansion of initial tests will see Gatik’s ‘multi-temperature Autonomous Box Trucks’ operate that same two-mile route without a driver starting next year.”