Posted on 09/03/2017 4:50:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
No ring of the doorbell, just a text. No tip for the driver? No problem in this test, where Domino's and Ford are teaming up to see if customers will warm to the idea of pizza delivered by driverless cars.
Starting Wednesday, some pizzas in Domino's hometown of Ann Arbor will arrive in a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars and a camera that is used for autonomous testing. A Ford engineer will be at the wheel, but the front windows have been blacked out so customers won't interact with the driver.
Instead, people will have to come out of their homes and type a four-digit code into a keypad mounted on the car. That will open the rear window and let customers retrieve their order from a heated compartment. The compartment can carry up to four pizzas and five sides, Domino's Pizza Inc. says.
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Going the wrong direction in terms of service...
Delivery goes through the roof when it’s raining out... this will hurt sales
in a storm, not to mention you’ll still need staff to load and unload the car and there are real costs to maintain and insure a vehicle that go beyond the hourly rate drivers get from franchisees.
I wonder if these cars can be tampered with and sent to chop shops.
Got to walk to curb for pizza? And in the rain, sleet, or snow?
They need to tell the Popular Mechanics, ‘Scientists’ and ‘Engineers’ that I am STILL WAITING for my flying car!
Quit wasting time on delivering PIZZA, Fer Pete’s Sake!
We. Want. To. Fly! ;)
Couldn’t they put the pizza to a roomba?
This will not end well for them.
Call me when they develop the self-tossing pizza.
Some whiz kid will hack it and get a lot of free pizza until they catch on.
easily.
or send it into the right neighborhood and the car will be completely stripped and siting on cement blocks in less then 10 minutes...
BOL!
They need to tell the Popular Mechanics, ‘Scientists’ and ‘Engineers’ that I am STILL WAITING for my flying car!
Quit wasting time on delivering PIZZA, Fer Pete’s Sake!
We. Want. To. Fly! ;)
Just deliver it by drone and take out 98% of the electrical lines in every neighborhood.
My thought as well. The business plan was not well thought out.
Michigan is bad enough, think about Minot ND in January.
“Pizza delivery without drivers”
“A Ford engineer will be at the wheel”
question: what do you call a “driverless” car that has a driver?
answer: a car.
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