Ford Motors, Walmart and delivery service Postmates are collaborating to develop driverless delivery services for Walmart customers. The project seems to be a part of Ford’s efforts to get a piece of the autonomous vehicle market - one that is is widely touted to shift the landscape of transportation and business logistics.
The project for delivering Walmart groceries and other goods will be tested out initially with human drivers to simulate how autonomous vehicles would deliver goods to customers, as indicated by Ford.
Earlier this year, Ford had announced about its plan to build the Ford Autonomous Vehicles unit which would focus on driverless vehicle operations, and that the company will invest $4 billion in this unit through 2023.