Domino’s Pizza is reportedly working on deploying mini delivery vans to bring your favorite pizza at your doorstep at the end of the year. As per recent reports, the pizza chain will be running a small trial in Houston, later this year, using the fully autonomous R1 mini delivery van which is built by Nuro.
Domino’s will make use of Nuro’s fleet of autonomous test vehicles to deliver pizzas to people in Houston who order through their app or online, and the pizzas will be delivered using Nuro’s R1 vehicle, the second generation of its fully autonomous electric test car, which will go into service later this year. R1 is a compact vehicle with no space for a human operator, which basically means, if it heads towards a wrong address, there is no human intervention.
However, it can drive up to 25 miles per hour and will deliver pizza only when you enter an OTP to open the pizza compartment. This isn’t Domino’s first foray into self-driving pizza, as weird as that sounds: Ford ran a limited pilot with the pizza company in 2017, which was designed as a test to figure out the basics around consumer expectations for interacting with such a service.
