DETROIT: In a story November 10, 2020, about Walmart joining with GMs Cruise automated vehicle unit to test package delivery, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Cruise would use Chevrolet Volt vehicles. The company will use Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles in the test.
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Walmart is teaming up with the General Motors autonomous vehicle unit to test driverless delivery in Arizona.
The companies say battery powered Chevrolet Bolt vehicles will begin deliveries in Scottsdale early next year. At first theyll have human backup drivers who will monitor the cars and help to deliver packages to doors. But Ray Wert, spokesman at GMs Cruise autonomous vehicle unit, says theyll eventually move to fully autonomous deliveries.
Walmart says customers will be able to place an order and it will be delivered contact-free by a Cruise vehicle. The retail giant says its one of several autonomous vehicle pilot projects designed to chart a new roadmap for retail sales.
The company says it started an express delivery service in April and now has it in over 2,800 stores that reach more than 65% of U.S. households.
Wert says the testing with Walmart will start small and gradually ramp up to more vehicles. He did not know how many Bolts would be used at the beginning.
Cruise said in October that it would pull the human backup drivers from its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco by the end of the year. It wasnt clear when Cruise will offer rides in driverless vehicles.
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