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Kroger will use autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries this fall

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    And thanks for reading Autoblog. You still haven't turned off your adblocker or whitelisted our site. It only takes a few seconds. Kroger will road-test Nuro driverless delivery vans this fall Groceries delivered in a tiny van that looks like a lunch box. Nuro said it is in the process of gaining regulatory approval for the project. Turo's new tool shows just how much your car can earn. We notice you're using an ad blocker. Please consider whitelisting Autoblog. Here's how to disable adblocking on our site. Click on the icon for your Adblocker in your browser.

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    Please follow the instructions below to enable JavaScript in your browser. But there's also a big opportunity to use autonomous vehicles to transform the retail sector. And one promising company in that emerging industry is Nuro , a startup founded by two early members of the Google self-driving car team. Now Nuro is announcing its first commercial partnership: Starting this fall, Kroger plans to start delivering groceries to customers using Nuro's autonomous vehicles. Initially, the partnership will only be active in a single market—the companies haven't yet said which city that will be.

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    But Nuro's goal is to eventually provide service across Kroger's entire retail footprint. And that footprint is large. In total, Kroger says it owns 2, stores in 35 states. Nuro differs from some other autonomous delivery startups—including Starship and Marble—because its vehicles are designed to operate on public streets rather than on sidewalks. A big reason Nuro has been able to get a commercial service to market quickly—possibly even launching before the founders' former employer Waymo—is that transporting goods is an easier problem than transporting people.

    Passenger vehicles not only need enough space for a human passenger but also for safety equipment like airbags.

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    Nuro's vehicles don't need any of that, so they're small and light and will do much less damage than a full-size car if they run into something. A taxi service needs to reach the destination quickly—which is why Waymo's vehicles are designed to travel at highway speeds.

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    The New York Times. Please follow the instructions below to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dragnet , the Fall's second album, was recorded in August at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, and was released on 26 October Customers in the test market will have the option to select driverless delivery when they order groceries from their local Kroger supermarket's website. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. When Dave Bush went to join Elastica , Scanlon was sacked after sixteen years, an unpopular decision which Smith would later regret.

    In contrast, a bag of groceries isn't in a hurry, so slower speeds aren't a problem. Low speeds mean a much shorter stopping distance and much lower chance of serious injury if it were to hit a pedestrian or another vehicle. Shorter stopping distances also mean that low-speed vehicles don't need the expensive long-range lidar sensors required for highway driving. Ferguson told Ars that this could ultimately prove to be a huge market.