The fleet of five trucks are the first autonomous commercial delivery vehicles in Canada. Find out more.
For about two and a half years, Loblaw has been working with Gatik Inc., an autonomous technology company based in Silicon Valley’s Mountain View, Calif., to run a fleet of five driverless trucks guided by cameras, laser sensors and sonar. In that time, the trucks have completed 150,000 trips without safety issues or accidents, picking up online grocery orders at a fulfilment centre and dropping them off for customers at a handful of pickup points around the Toronto area.
However, Gatik chief executive Gautam Narang said the human in the passenger seat is actually necessary, and is just a courtesy to local emergency services. that allows for certain autonomous vehicles to run without a driver. Gatik is also running trucks for Walmart Inc. in Arkansas without anyone in the vehicle at all.“The big news here is that we’re able to do commercial deliveries literally without the need for a driver,” Narang said. “Removing the driver is the holy grail in our industry.”Article content
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