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Briefing
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- Driverless Grocery Deliveries – Ford teaming up with Walmart and on-demand delivery service provider Postmates to test self-driving vehicles for delivering groceries in Miami
- Collaborative Effort – Ford will work with Walmart to explore different vehicle designs or modifications to accommodate different customer needs, such as delivering perishable goods and handling multiple grocery orders
- Customer Interface – Instructions are provided by touchscreen from car window, where access to trunk is also given
- Human-Assisted – Human driver still present during testing phase, so grocery deliveries will not yet be fully autonomous
- Expansion – Autonomous grocery deliveries will expand to 800 Walmart stores from 100 regions in U.S. by end of 2018, and at least 1,600 Walmart stores in 2019
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Accelerator
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Market Disruption
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Business Model and Practices
Business Model
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Sector
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Transportation and Logistics, Wholesale and Retail Trade
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Organization
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Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC, Ford Motor Co., Postmates Inc., Walmart Stores Inc.
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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November 14, 2018
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