Waymo takes orders and drives customers to the store on autopilot

If the application of automatic driving can only assist the driver in complex road conditions, but in the case of a relatively fixed route and a high-definition map, automatic driving is still desirable. A few days ago, foreign media reported that the self-driving company Waymo cooperated with Walmart to provide autonomous driving shuttle services for Walmart customers in Phoenix, USA. At the same time, passengers can also submit shopping lists to the merchants in advance and pick up the goods directly at the store.

It is understood that the self-driving company Waymo and Walmart take Phoenix city in the United States as a pilot to provide consumers with a new experience of autonomous driving travel from point A to supermarket to home + immediate pickup at the store. Customers can call up for self-driving vehicles at any location in the city and head to the supermarket to shop. At the same time, customers can also submit shopping lists to the supermarket through the Internet in advance, and on the way to the supermarket, the merchant has helped customers prepare the items in the list, and can directly pick up the goods after they arrive.

Waymo's cooperation in autonomous driving and other industries in society is only just beginning, in addition to Walmart, it is also cooperating with the U.S. shopping mall operator DDR to provide self-driving car services for shoppers and diners; in the future, they will also cooperate with gyms, movie theaters and other businesses to achieve Waymo's self-driving shuttle service.

Waymo has completed 8 million miles of self-driving tests in the U.S., and is even able to achieve L4-level autonomous driving in certain scenarios. Since Wal-Mart cooperates with it, it proves that its self-driving technology is still very recognized, but in the process of submitting a shopping list to the supermarket in advance and directly picking up the goods after arriving, the customer just takes a self-driving car to go back and forth, so why not submit the shopping list from the Internet, and then the supermarket directly arranges delivery.