Walmart To Test Self-Driving Cars For Grocery Pickup Service
The future is here and soon it will be toting grocery shoppers around Phoenix. Walmart and Waymo — formerly Google's self-driving car project — announced on Wednesday the launch of a pilot program that will allow consumers to make their grocery pickups with the help of an autonomous vehicle.
The plan is simple. Participants in Waymo's "early riders" program will be able to take a driverless shuttle service to and from Walmart whenever they purchase groceries from Walmart.com using the retailer's online grocery pickup service.
Current "early riders" will receive incentives to participate in the pilot and the rides will be provided with no additional cost, Molly Blakeman, a Walmart spokesperson, said in an email to NPR. "Since the pilot is part of our Grocery Pickup program, personal shoppers pick customers' orders and bring them right out to the car ... in this case a Waymo self-driving car," she said.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:11AM (2 children)
Wal Mart is where lowlife scum shop.
It's depressing to even be near the place.
I don't give a fuck if Charlize Theron shows up in a Singer 911 to give me a ride to Wal Mart, I'm not going.
However, with Charlize I would go anywhere else :-)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:26AM
Would you let her take you to Save-a-Lot?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @02:09PM
incel spotted