Thanks to Google, self-driving passenger cars have gained a lot of media attention, but the immediate future of driverless vehicles may lie in home deliveries. Starship Technologies in 2016 will launch two pilot projects — one in the UK and one in the United States — to test a driverless vehicle designed to make short-distance deliveries. The vehicle, which looks like an oversized slow cooker on wheels, can carry loads equivalent to two bags of groceries from a distribution center or retail outlet to customers.
Having semi-autonomous vehicles running around sidewalks and taking shortcuts through parks will spawn an entire new category of law. The real winners of the future autonomous world will be the artificial-intelligence based lawyers.
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The Future of Deliveries Will Be Driverless
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 5, 2016 05:00 AMThanks to Google, self-driving passenger cars have gained a lot of media attention, but the immediate future of driverless vehicles may lie in home deliveries. Starship Technologies in 2016 will launch two pilot projects — one in the UK and one in the United States — to test a driverless vehicle designed to make short-distance deliveries. The vehicle, which looks like an oversized slow cooker on wheels, can carry loads equivalent to two bags of groceries from a distribution center or retail outlet to customers.