DoorDash and Cruise Automation to use autonomous vehicles to deliver your food in San Francisco

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On-demand courier service DoorDash has partnered with General Motors’ Cruise Automation to test what the companies are calling the first food deliveries using autonomous vehicles in San Francisco.

Testing will begin in March.

During testing, DoorDash and Cruise will seek to answer the following three primary questions:

What key technical and infrastructure challenges exist with autonomous delivery?

How can autonomous delivery positively impact merchants, dashers, and customers?

And are autonomous vehicles capable of achieving the same quality standards DoorDash customers have come to know and love?

DoorDash and Cruise have built a runner system to move orders from the merchant to the autonomous vehicle. The customer will then be notified when the autonomous vehicle is approaching the customer address.

“In partnership with Cruise Automation, we look forward to scaling and improving the delivery experience for our merchants, dashers, and customers,” DoorDash says in a company blog post.