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To: Sam who wrote (532)	3/19/2023 5:53:25 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 567

Kroger set to use self-driving trucks for deliveries By Staff Report March 18, 2023 Self-driving trucks will soon start making deliveries at some Kroger stores in the Dallas area, the company announced. Kroger has partnered with Gatik to use its midsize trucks to carry goods between a Kroger fulfillment center and the nation’s largest grocer’s stores, the companies said Wednesday. The Gatik trucks, with a safety driver initially, will make repeated delivery runs multiple times a day, seven days a week for Kroger. The routes include semi-urban and highway driving at up to 70 miles per hour. The routes average 60 miles per round trip. Kroger joins Walmart, Loblaw and Georgia-Pacific in using Gatik’s self-driving trucks for short-haul routes. Gatik said Kroger has signed a multiyear agreement to use its autonomous box trucks to transport ambient, refrigerated and frozen foods and general merchandise. “Kroger’s commitment to redefining service levels for its customers through innovative technology meant that our collaboration came together very quickly,” said Gautam Narang, co-founder and CEO at Gatik in a statement. “We’re deeply familiar with operating our autonomous fleet within the Dallas ecosystem, and we’re very excited to bring that experience to support Kroger in its mission to reshape the future of goods delivery.” The deliveries are expected to start in the third quarter of the year. Kroger opened America’s first automated warehouse in Monroe March 2021. The $55 million, 335,000-square-foot customer fulfillment center features digital and robotic capabilities that allow Kroger to assemble an order of approximately 50 items in six minutes with robotics in an automated warehouse instead of approximately 30 to 45 minutes with a Kroger employee picking them up from various areas of the store. Located along Ohio 63at 6266 Hamilton Lebanon Road in Monroe, the new facility — also known as a “shed” — is the first of 20 planned colossal automated warehouse/distribution facilities to be created as part of a partnership between Kroger and U.K.-based Ocado, one of the world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailers. It employs more than 400 people. daytondailynews.com

To: Sam who wrote (532)	3/21/2023 3:43:05 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 567

SF has been using them for awhile.... Cruise wants to test self-driving cars all over California by: AP Posted: Mar 20, 2023 / 06:13 PM PDT Updated: Mar 21, 2023 / 08:33 AM PDT kron4.com DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Monday asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state. The GM subsidiary already is running an autonomous ride-hailing service in its hometown of San Francisco after testing for more than two years. It doesn’t have specific plans yet to expand testing in California, but applying with the Department of Motor Vehicles is a step toward entering cities such as Los Angeles. “While this application doesn’t represent any immediate change to our testing or operations, we hope to continue working with the California DMV to safely and responsibly test our services in other cities in the future,” Cruise spokesman Drew Pusateri said in a statement. If granted, the test permit won’t allow Cruise to carry non-employee passengers outside of San Francisco. Testing could be done up to 55 miles per hour (88 kilometers per hour) statewide, Cruise said.