Cars without drivers began to deliver products from supermarkets in Silicon Valley

On December 1, 2021, the 7-Eleven chain of 24-hour stores, together with the robotics company Nuro, launches the first commercial delivery in the state of California using autonomous vehicles. Residents of Silicon Valley will be able to use it.

7-Eleven has owned and defined convenience since 1927, "says Raghu Mahadevan, director of digital technology at 7-Eleven. - Our first run on autonomous delivery was in 2016, when 7-Eleven became the first retailer in the United States to deliver drones to the customer's home. Since then, we have not stopped looking for ways to redefine convenience for our customers inside and outside the four walls of our stores. Move to 2021, and we are expanding the boundaries of innovation even further to provide customers with the first commercial standalone delivery service in California. I can't wait to see where we're going.

Cars without drivers began to deliver products from supermarkets in Silicon Valley

Nuro will begin to deliver from its autonomous Prius with an operator who will monitor the technology, and then replace with fully unmanned R2 vehicles, which are specially created to transport products and goods without people in the car. Nuro became the first autonomous vehicle company to receive deployment approval from the California DMV in December 2020, allowing the launch of the state's first commercial delivery service in collaboration with 7-Eleven.

Nuro did not announce when she would step outside Mountain View. The company also did not say when it would switch to its R2 bot. The spokesman said Nuro and 7-Eleven will make a joint decision to introduce R2 into the delivery service as soon as possible.

At the time of launch, delivery works only in the city of Mountain View. Customers can order offline delivery via the 7NOW app from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at no additional cost. The application will update the status as the order is processed, similar to how other delivery applications work. The companies said that orders will be delivered, on average, in 30 minutes. Age-restricted items such as alcohol, tobacco, and lottery tickets will not be available on autonomous shipping.^[1]

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