Vkusvill began to test the product delivery using pilotless cars

On October 5, 2020 Vkusvill began to test the product delivery using unmanned vehicles. For this purpose the retail network organized cooperation with the Russian company "Moove!".

The Kia Soul hatch-back, the equipped system of an auto pilot, delivers products from Vkusvill supermarkets in the Area of Yuzhnoye Butovo in Moscow. The vehicle is equipped with the laser radar (lidar) and the software of own development of Moove!.

A system allows the machine to move on the city both in the UAV mode, and in the normal mode with the driver. However as movements of UAVs without drivers are prohibited, the express car is accompanied by the flight engineer who is driving.

When children from Moove! suggested us to test the unmanned vehicle in delivery, it became interesting to us whether the machine something will be able to facilitate a task of the courier or to accelerate delivery of orders in one specific zone. We expect to find answers to these questions according to the results of test drive within three weeks of October — Anna Platova managing on communications of Vkusvill retail network noted.

According to her, the Push-notification in the Vkusvill application will come to those dates when in the area in a radius of work of shop with delivery the UAV works, to buyers.

Test drive will last three weeks. The company expects to learn whether the UAV will be able to facilitate a task of the courier or to accelerate delivery of orders in a specific zone.

The network began to develop own delivery since spring of 2020. For September, 2020 the retailer delivered more than 1 million orders.

Moove company!, as well as "Yandex", is engaged in development of unmanned vehicles. By the beginning of October, 2020 only these companies have technologies in Russia, capable to provide autonomous driving in the urban environment.^[1]

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