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Pizza delivery autonomous vehicle12/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a statement that for Nuro “certain features that the department traditionally required - such as mirrors and windshield for vehicles carrying drivers - no longer make sense.” lawmakers have spent years trying to overhaul federal laws to speed deployment of self-driving vehicles. The approval followed three years of talks between the government and Nuro. Nuro told NHTSA in its October 2018 petition that the R2 vehicles will at all times be monitored by remote human operators who can take over driving control if needed.Īutomakers must meet about 75 auto safety standards to win such regulatory approval, many of which were put in place with the assumption that a licensed human driver would be in control. ![]() The R2, which Nuro describes as an “electric-powered delivery robot,” is designed to make short trips and will be restricted to pre-mapped neighborhood streets. Walmart Inc ( WMT.N) and Domino’s Pizza ( DPZ.N) said last year they would launch pilot delivery projects with Nuro in Houston. The agency’s approval of Nuro’s petition will allow the company to deploy the R2, a vehicle designed to have no human occupants and operate exclusively with an automated driving system, as part of a delivery service for restaurants, grocery stores and others. Nuro called the regulatory approval by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “a milestone for the industry.”Īmericans “waste a lot of time running errands,” Nuro said, adding that it envisions “a future where everything comes to you, on-demand, for free.” Nuro R2, a self-driving delivery vehicle, with compartments ready for unloading, in Houston, Texas. Nuro, a privately held robotics company based in Mountain View, California, said it will begin public road testing to prepare deliveries in Houston in the coming weeks. ![]()
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