Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik on Wednesday announced the launch of driverless box trucks to deliver select online grocery orders for Loblaw’s PC Express service.
Drivers will still be on hand to take over if necessary but will be on standby in the passenger seat, Gatik told Global News.
According to a press release issued by Gatik today, Loblaw and Gatik have been testing the viability of driverless trucks by transporting more than 150,000 autonomous deliveries with a safety driver on board since January 2020.
The driverless trucks have now been cleared to travel on “fixed, repetitive, predictable” routes from a Loblaw distribution facility to five PC Express locations in the Greater Toronto Area.