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Domino's, Ford to test pizza delivery via driverless cars

Domino's and Ford are teaming up to see if customers will warm to the idea of pizza delivered by driverless cars. In their test, customers will receive no ring of the doorbell, just a text. No tip? No problem there, since the test will evaluate how people interact with the self-driving cars.

Starting Wednesday, some pizzas in Domino's (DPZ) hometown of Ann Arbor will arrive in a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars and a camera that is used for autonomous testing. A Ford engineer will be at the wheel, but the front windows have been blacked out so customers won't interact with the driver.

Instead, people will have to come out of their homes and type a four-digit code into a keypad mounted on the car. That will open the rear window and let customers retrieve their order from a heated compartment. The compartment can carry up to four pizzas and five sides, Domino's Pizza says.

The experiment will help Domino's understand how customers will interact with a self-driving car, says company President Russell Weiner. Will they want the car in their driveway or by the curb? Will they understand how to use the keypad? Will they come outside if it's raining or snowing? Will they put their pizza boxes on top of the car and threaten to mess up its expensive cameras?

"The majority of our questions are about the last 50 feet of the delivery experience," Weiner told reporters last week.

Domino's, which delivers 1 billion pizzas worldwide each year, needs to stay ahead of emerging trends, Weiner says. The test will last six weeks, and the companies say they'll decide afterward what to do next. Domino's is also testing pizza delivery with drones.

Weiner said the company has 100,000 drivers in the U.S. In a driverless world, he said, he could see those employees taking on different roles within the company.

Ford Motor Co., which wants to develop a fully driverless vehicle by 2021, said it needs to understand the kinds of things companies would use that vehicle for. The experiment is a first for Ford. But other companies have seen the potential for food deliveries. Otto, a startup backed by Uber, delivered 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer from a self-driving truck in Colorado last fall.

"We're developing a self-driving car not just for the sake of technology," said Sherif Marakby, Ford's vice president of autonomous and electric vehicles. "There are so many practical things that we need to learn."

Only one car will be deployed in Ann Arbor, and it has a special black-and-white paint job to identify it as a research vehicle.

Customers in the test area will be chosen randomly when they order a pizza, and will get a phone call to confirm they want to participate. If they agree, they'll get a text message letting them know when the vehicle is pulling up and how to retrieve their food.


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Now, match this with Dominos Pizza App and they are on the cutting edge of future food service. Soon, they will need almost no employees for a consumer to order and receive a pizza.

These driverless cars are going to have an unbelievable impact to our economy with plenty of winners and losers.

However, I prefer my pizza delivered by flying drones.

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Various governments are working on laws to ban larger drones as they can be weaponised. the UK is certainly doing this. If you have the volume and mass limit to carry a couple of pizzas and add ons, it can carry an aerosoled chemical or a bomb.

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I'm not sure we need drones for pizza delivery. What proportion of the population live outside a mile's drive of a Dominoes?

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This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?

   
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In before a Driverless Pizza Delivery Vehicle(DPDV) runs someone over and still gets the pizza delivered before it gets cold...

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 Da Boss wrote:
This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?


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 Da Boss wrote:
This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?


See, this is one area I do not see getting automated. I see there being an attempt at this, and then there will be some horrible traffic accident with multiple fatalities that was caused by a driverless car. Then you'll see Driverless cars get completely outlawed.

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 Grey Templar wrote:
In before a Driverless Pizza Delivery Vehicle(DPDV) runs someone over and still gets the pizza delivered before it gets cold...


That's great customer service!

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 Grey Templar wrote:
 Da Boss wrote:
This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?


See, this is one area I do not see getting automated. I see there being an attempt at this, and then there will be some horrible traffic accident with multiple fatalities that was caused by a driverless car. Then you'll see Driverless cars get completely outlawed.


The bolded part already happens multiple times every single day, and we still let people drive cars. Why would driverless cars be any different?

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 feeder wrote:

The bolded part already happens multiple times every single day, and we still let people drive cars. Why would driverless cars be any different?


Because then the only option for who to place the blame on will be a corporate entity, and we can't do that.

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 feeder wrote:
 Grey Templar wrote:
 Da Boss wrote:
This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?


See, this is one area I do not see getting automated. I see there being an attempt at this, and then there will be some horrible traffic accident with multiple fatalities that was caused by a driverless car. Then you'll see Driverless cars get completely outlawed.


The bolded part already happens multiple times every single day, and we still let people drive cars. Why would driverless cars be any different?


To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

That's the crux of the issue. If a human makes a mistake, it's confined to that individual human. If a driverless car makes a mistake, that same glitch or design flaw will be present in every other driverless car of the same make and model.

Manufacturing errors will have a much greater impact on consumer safety if Driverless cars become a thing. Not only are you dealing with the car needing to just run, but you're also responsible for the navigation, collision avoidance, making sure the sensors work properly so the computer knows what is going on. It's way more things to go wrong and on a much larger scale.

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Meh, I'd be more interested of Dominos actually started making good pizza. I've got enough quality pizza places and Italian restaurants around me that I don't have suffer from Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc.

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While a good sit-down Pizza place is better, Dominos is pretty dang good for delivery. Certainly better than anything I would zap in the microwave. And their sides are pretty good.

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i love proper italian style pizza, and that's mostly what I can get here in Germany pretty easily. But sometimes you just want a dirty big american style pizza delivered to your door with all the trimmings and you know it's going to taste amazing but leave you dehydrated from too much salt and slightly queasy from too much food, but it will be glorious.

I haven't had an american style pizza in literally years, I dunno if you can tell from my post

   
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Which kind? We have many distinct kinds of pizza over here.

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New York I think? But I dunno, I'm not super familiar with local american varieties.

   
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 Grey Templar wrote:
 feeder wrote:
 Grey Templar wrote:
 Da Boss wrote:
This is going to be a big problem. Driving trucks or delivery was one of those steady jobs people with low education could do and earn a living at. As it moves to automation, there's gonna be a lot of people out of work.

Is there gonna come a time when we say no more to increased automation?


See, this is one area I do not see getting automated. I see there being an attempt at this, and then there will be some horrible traffic accident with multiple fatalities that was caused by a driverless car. Then you'll see Driverless cars get completely outlawed.


The bolded part already happens multiple times every single day, and we still let people drive cars. Why would driverless cars be any different?


To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

That's the crux of the issue. If a human makes a mistake, it's confined to that individual human. If a driverless car makes a mistake, that same glitch or design flaw will be present in every other driverless car of the same make and model.

Manufacturing errors will have a much greater impact on consumer safety if Driverless cars become a thing. Not only are you dealing with the car needing to just run, but you're also responsible for the navigation, collision avoidance, making sure the sensors work properly so the computer knows what is going on. It's way more things to go wrong and on a much larger scale.

And yet we already have driverless cars on the road, and so far they've caused one accident. At the time it occurred, said cars had accrued over 1.3 million miles on the road.
   
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New York is one style. Thin crust. Best eaten by pinching the tips of the crust together. My personal favorite.

Chicago is another. Also known as Deep Dish. Puts the Pie in Pizza-pie. 1-2 inches thick. Gotta eat it with forks and knives.

Neapolitan. This is the closest to traditional Italian pizza.

Stuffed Pizza. Sort of a cross between Deep Dish and a Pot Pie. It's basically a pie that's had a pizza put on top of it instead of your typical piecrust.

Detroit style. Slightly related to deep dish, but not as thick. It's typically square and baked in cast iron for a very crunchy crust. Unlike Deep Dish, you can pick up slices with your hands.

There are tons of others.


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 Laughing Man wrote:

And yet we already have driverless cars on the road, and so far they've caused one accident. At the time it occurred, said cars had accrued over 1.3 million miles on the road.


Yes, and they're still being heavily monitored for bugs. And it's far more than 1 accident.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/10/31/study-self-driving-cars-accidents/74946614/

Driverless cars have a higher accident rate than non-driverless cars. You can't just consider situations where they were "at fault". Because many of these accidents would have been avoided if the car had not been driverless, simply because the Driverless car will always move if it has the right of way, even if that would lead to an accident. It lacks the critical thinking of a human who might decide not to do something, even though they have the right of way, because it would cause an accident.

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All my electronics work flawlessly all the time. I'm sure the performance of driverless cars will track very similarly.

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 Grey Templar wrote:
New York is one style. Thin crust. Best eaten by pinching the tips of the crust together. My personal favorite.

Chicago is another. Also known as Deep Dish. Puts the Pie in Pizza-pie. 1-2 inches thick. Gotta eat it with forks and knives.

Neapolitan. This is the closest to traditional Italian pizza.

Stuffed Pizza. Sort of a cross between Deep Dish and a Pot Pie. It's basically a pie that's had a pizza put on top of it instead of your typical piecrust.

Detroit style. Slightly related to deep dish, but not as thick. It's typically square and baked in cast iron for a very crunchy crust. Unlike Deep Dish, you can pick up slices with your hands.

There are tons of others.


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 Laughing Man wrote:

And yet we already have driverless cars on the road, and so far they've caused one accident. At the time it occurred, said cars had accrued over 1.3 million miles on the road.


Yes, and they're still being heavily monitored for bugs. And it's far more than 1 accident.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/10/31/study-self-driving-cars-accidents/74946614/

Driverless cars have a higher accident rate than non-driverless cars. You can't just consider situations where they were "at fault". Because many of these accidents would have been avoided if the car had not been driverless, simply because the Driverless car will always move if it has the right of way, even if that would lead to an accident. It lacks the critical thinking of a human who might decide not to do something, even though they have the right of way, because it would cause an accident.


The UK is soon to test driver less lorries/HGV's on the roads. Freight and transportation are the key industries automotive and software engineers are targeting for development and deployment of autonomous self driving vehicles.

Airbus and Boeing have teams dedicated to non flight based self driving AI, with a focus on commercial transportation. It has already been decided that this is the future. This is where revenue will need to come from. Car manufacturers are slightly behind on this but are already planning for the concept of car ownership to die off with a replacement of on call self driving transportation.

Have no doubt that AI controlled vehicles will be a visible presence in the near future. Crashes or not.



   
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Have no doubt that AI controlled vehicles will be a visible presence in the near future. Crashes or not.





Yup, it just makes too much sense. I can only faintly glimmer how much this is going to revolutionize our eceonomy.

No need for car insurance, taxis, etc. No need for truckers, or even forklift operators.

Families can share a single drone car as it shuttles itself between drop-off/pick-up points. Car pooling will take on a whole new meaning. People of any age will be mobile thanks to their drone car. 8 years olds or 88 year olds.

It is mind-blowing the impact it will have on how we work, play, and live.

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Wait, I have to walk all the way outside to the curb to get the pizza when it's delivered to my house instead of just my front door?

No thanks.

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 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Wait, I have to walk all the way outside to the curb to get the pizza when it's delivered to my house instead of just my front door?

No thanks.


It can pull into your driveway.

.... or maybe then a copter drone carries it the door! Win-win!

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 Grey Templar wrote:

 Laughing Man wrote:

And yet we already have driverless cars on the road, and so far they've caused one accident. At the time it occurred, said cars had accrued over 1.3 million miles on the road.


Yes, and they're still being heavily monitored for bugs. And it's far more than 1 accident.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/10/31/study-self-driving-cars-accidents/74946614/

Driverless cars have a higher accident rate than non-driverless cars. You can't just consider situations where they were "at fault". Because many of these accidents would have been avoided if the car had not been driverless, simply because the Driverless car will always move if it has the right of way, even if that would lead to an accident. It lacks the critical thinking of a human who might decide not to do something, even though they have the right of way, because it would cause an accident.

Except they don't have more accidents than human-operated vehicles.
   
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 Grey Templar wrote:
In before a Driverless Pizza Delivery Vehicle(DPDV) runs someone over and still gets the pizza delivered before it gets cold...


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 Grey Templar wrote:
In before a Driverless Pizza Delivery Vehicle(DPDV) runs someone over and still gets the pizza delivered before it gets cold...


Why use a drone when you can have The Deliverator?

The Deliverator belongs to an elite order,
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a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

When they gave him the job, they gave him a gun. The Deliverator never deals in cash, but someone might come after him anyway-might want his car, or his cargo. The gun is tiny, aero-styled, lightweight, the kind of a gun a fashion designer would carry; it fires teensy darts that fly at five times the velocity of an SR-71 spy plane, and when you get done using it, you have to plug it into the cigarette lighter, because it runs on electricity.

The Deliverator never pulled that gun in anger, or in fear. He pulled it once in Gila Highlands. Some punks in Gila Highlands, a fancy Burbclave, wanted themselves a delivery, and they didn't want to pay for it. Thought they would impress the Deliverator with a baseball bat. The Deliverator took out his gun, centered its laser doohickey on that poised Louisville Slugger, fired it. The recoil was immense, as though the weapon had blown up in his hand. The middle third of the baseball bat turned into a column of burning sawdust accelerating in all directions like a bursting star. Punk ended up holding this bat handle with milky smoke pouring out the end. Stupid look on his face. Didn't get nothing but trouble from the Deliverator.

Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow. The punks in Gila Highlands weren't afraid of the gun, so the Deliverator was forced to use it. But swords need no demonstrations.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deiverator puts the hammer down, gak happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the feth they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fething stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here—once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel—once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—you know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music
movies
microcode (software),
high-speed pizza delivery

The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved—but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: the Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit.



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