![]() ![]() That’s illegal, and I certainly can’t endorse such an activity. Throughout my tenure in the pizza industry, I noticed we always had at least two marijuana distributors on hand before they were fired for the side business and eventually replaced by someone else who, coincidentally, also happened to sell pot. What it doesn’t do is deliver you drugs, which is a time-honored tradition among small-town delivery drivers. The compartment can carry a maximum of four pizzas and five sides, according to Domino’s. That will open the rear window and let customers retrieve their order from a heated compartment. The event requires customers to walk up to the car and input a four-digit code on a keypad mounted on the car. Although a fleet of autonomous cars probably isn’t cheap.įraming this entirely as a service, problems still abound. Domino’s is likely testing customer reactions to the “technology” in the hope that it won’t have to pay for drivers in the future. Maybe this isn’t a profession that needs to persist after all. However, I also know that it’s in fashion to say youngsters shouldn’t be making decent wages and entry-level jobs aren’t supposed to pay enough for a person to live upon - bootstraps and all that. I did it for years (also in Michigan) and, while not particularly glamorous work, I was compensated far better than my teenaged peers. Secondly, pizza delivery is one of the most lucrative careers available to young people. While it’s understandable that removing the driver from the equation might someday save pizza chains tons of dough, there are a few things neither Ford, nor Domino’s, seem to have considered.įirst of all, nobody wants to walk out into the pouring rain or bitter cold to retrieve a thin cardboard box that protects the food they’ve been waiting an hour for. The customer is the test platform, not the car. But the cars in question aren’t actually self-driving, they’re simulated autonomous vehicles doing market research.Įssentially, Domino’s customers in Ann Arbor, Michigan will have the option to accept pizza deliveries from a standard Ford Fusion Hybrid with loads of visual accoutrements to denote a cutting-edge test vehicle and a human operator obscured by a partition and some tinted glass. The venture is an attempt to better understand how customers respond to and interact with autonomous vehicles and assess the future relevancy of the technology. ![]() ![]() Ford and Domino’s Pizza are joining forces to test self-driving pizza delivery vehicles in Michigan. ![]()
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