Loblaws partners with self-driving company Gatik in Canadian first: driverless grocery trucks
https://www.cbc.ca/n...omous-1.6606623
There is no human sitting in the driver's seat of a half-dozen trucks adorned with PC Express branding, currently making their way around various Ontario roadways.
It's the latest step in a pilot program launched in 2020 in which trucks operated by Palo Alto, Calif.,-based Gatik ferried various items between Loblaws distribution hubs and a half-dozen retail locations across the Greater Toronto Area.
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Although the trucks drive themselves, at first, a safety driver sat behind the wheel. More than 150,000 such trips were quietly done during the pandemic, and after completing all of them without a single safety incident, the two parties decided to take the next step: They sought and received permission from the province to go driverless, though they plan to have the safety driver sit in the passenger seat for now.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 October 2022 - 03:38 PM.