Autonomous cars they are already a reality and it will soon be common to see them on the streets. For Walmart, US retail giant These vehicles will serve as distributors and are expected to begin use in 2021.
According to The Verge, the chain hopes to end its relationship with human drivers who attend to its list fleet of cars self-employed in Arkansas y Louisiana, for them to begin their journey alone.
After 18 months of testing with the vehicle company Gatik, cars are expected to start driving alone in those locations.
Walmart’s experiments with Gatik involve putting two specific routes completely in the hands of the cars themselves. The largest of them involves 32 km away.
Gatik, which is based in Palo Alto y Toronto, equipped several trucks with multi-temperature box with sensors and software to allow autonomous driving. Since last year, trucks have been operating on a 4-mile route between a “dark store” (a store that stores items for dispatch but is not open to the public) and a neighboring market searching in Bentonville, Arkansas. .
Given the number of challenges facing the autonomous car industry, it is possible that Walmart’s ambitious timeline may not be realized or met in that plan.
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