That’s what carmakers and Alphabet’s Waymo are striving for with self-driving passenger vehicles and freight delivery trucks.īusiness Autonomous car developers lobby to defang safety data regulations The scale tops out at level 5, where the vehicle drives itself and can go anywhere under all conditions. The scale starts at zero, where the vehicle must be human-controlled at all times, like Coco’s delivery bots. Department of Transportation has adopted a six-point standard for driving autonomy that applies to self-driving cars on public roads as well as 2-foot-tall delivery robots on sidewalks. So the only option out of this is basically doing delivery by robots,” Gupta says.īuilding a truly autonomous vehicle is definitely a work in progress.
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The demand for drivers “cannot be met at a cost that businesses are willing to pay. Gupta, director of USC’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing. Unfortunately there is a shortage of drivers for most types of delivery,” says Satyandra K. “There’s a huge demand for delivery to people’s homes. But it’s getting a big assist from the shortage of people willing to take gig-delivery work for the money offered.īusiness Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secretĪ court may decide whether Waymo’s business interests outweigh the public’s right to understand the safety issues around self-driving cars This off-road race to compete with Uber Eats, DoorDash and other delivery companies that rely on gig workers is hindered by currently available self-driving technology, not to mention gaping sidewalk cracks.
A recent partnership with Segway is promising to unleash thousands of the pink vehicles in multiple cities.Īnother California startup, Kiwibot, also employs remote vehicle operators, while San Francisco-based Starship Technologies has designed its sidewalk delivery bots to mosey along on their own but with employees tracking every move via computer screen and grabbing control when needed. For Subscribers Kicks, pranks, dog pee: The hard life of food delivery robotsĪs sidewalk bots proliferate, they turn on the charm - flashing cute eyes, emoji hearts - to keep safe and get deliveries to their intended destinations.Ĭalifornia has become a proving ground for several sidewalk delivery robot startups like Coco, which was born two years ago in the living room of UCLA alumni Zach Rash and Brad Squicciarini, both now 24 and riding a pandemic-related desire for contact-free delivery.
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