Walmart To Test Self-Driving Cars For Grocery Pickup Service

Waymo self-driving cars will be used to chauffeur “early riders” to and from their Walmart online grocery pickup location.

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The future is here and soon it will be toting grocery shoppers around Phoenix.

Walmart and Waymo — formerly Google’s self-driving car project — announced on Wednesday the launch of a pilot program that will allow consumers to make their grocery pickups with the help of an autonomous vehicle.

The plan is simple. Participants in Waymo’s “early riders” program will be able to take a driverless shuttle service to and from Walmart whenever they purchase groceries from Walmart.com using the retailer’s online grocery pickup service.