Meet Loblaw's driverless trucks, now making e-commerce deliveries around the Toronto area

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

BryanPassifiume Brampton, of all places, what could possibly go wrong.

Wait till criminals learn about this.

BryanPassifiume I wonder if the taxpayer helped out financially strewn Loblaws with this initiative .

Wow incredible. This is unusual for sure.

I can't wait to see the savings on my grocery bill

I love it when the left demands a livable wage for low wage work that technology can do, and then they get mad when technology replaces workers.

Who is unloading the driverless trucks at the customers residence?

Taking jobs away is supposed to be applauded now?

But the taxpayers needed to buy their fridges for them. And this is the thanks we get.

Galen Weston needs that extra 100 million a year taking jobs away from Canadians.

This will not happen for a very long time. Just a company promo. Did you get paid to publish this?

Is this considered “progress”? How many drivers are now and will be unemployed?

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