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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.

Also at NYT and AZCentral.

Related: Google/Waymo Announces Testing of Self-Driving Trucks in Atlanta, Georgia

Original Submission

1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Walmart To Test Self-Driving Cars For Grocery Pickup Service" - https://www.npr.org/2018/07/25/632257414/walmart-to-test-self-driving-cars-for-grocery-pickup-service
3. "Waymo" - https://waymo.com/journey/
4. "pilot program" - https://medium.com/waymo/growing-waymos-partnerships-in-metro-phoenix-965941451902
5. "early riders" - https://waymo.com/apply/faq/
6. "NYT" - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/technology/waymo-walmart-avis-autonation.html
7. "AZCentral" - https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2018/07/25/waymo-autonomous-car-give-phoenix-shoppers-rides-walmart-autonation-ahwatukee-foothills-towne-center/835646002/
8. "Google/Waymo Announces Testing of Self-Driving Trucks in Atlanta, Georgia" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/03/10/1413220
9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28092

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