Some make pizza themselves. Some buy frozen pizza. And some have pizza delivered, which is particularly useful for spontaneous parties or when the fridge is empty.
There is usually a pizza delivery person at the door. However, a video has now appeared in the USA that changes the purchasing process in a small detail: the pizza delivery person is no longer needed, a car now delivers the pizza itself.
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You can see a car driving down the street, two men are already waiting for the delivery. One of the two jokes that it's definitely driving itself since it's the only car that stops at the stop sign (which apparently no one else there does). The car turns around, plays a short melody, a display opens into which the man enters his data, and then the rear window opens, through which the man then receives his order.
A clever publicity stunt? Or more?
In fact, this is not a joke, but a current test! Ford and the pizza delivery company Domino's entered into in August 2017 to test how effectively self-driving cars can be used for pizza deliveries, and customer reactions to this are also part of the research.
The tests began in Ann Arbor in the USA, where selected Domino's customers received their deliveries using such a car. These customers could then see where the car was via their smartphone and receive a text message when the delivery arrived. Testing began in Miami in February.
Almost self-propelled, because…
...you don't want to rely entirely on technology alone. As written above, the reactions of customers are also important for the investigation. As USA Today reported, the cars just look like there's no driver in them. In fact, for safety reasons alone, there is a driver in the car, hidden behind the tinted windows in the back seat of the car.
Ford plans to continue testing and improving this service through 2021 before entering production.
Conclusion
The video is real .
However, there is a (not visible) driver in the car in order to be able to document the customers' reactions to the delivery service. Ford also still has to fine-tune the technology so that these delivery vans can actually drive themselves by 2021.
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