Walmart just announced that it will use driverless trucks to make deliveries within 2021.
About Gatik startup:-
Gatik was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For the first time, Gatik's multi-temperature autonomous box trucks will move customer orders between dark store and market in Bentonville without supervision of safety drivers. The distance covered will be 2 miles.
Gatik and Walmart have partnered to introduced a Self driving Delivery truck in 2019, they have stated, that last year they were started delivering goods now it's been 70,000 miles with the human in the Self Driving truck just for safety and they said that they will replace human Drivers with the fully autonomous delivery trucks in 2021. This Truck will move items from WALMART SUPERCENTER to location where customers can pick.
This autonomous Delivery truck is now delivering the goods within the 2 miles in Arkansas. After, it's success they have planned to expand the route Up-to 20 miles in Louisiana that is between New Orleans and Metairie.
About Autonomous Truck:-
That it's 'Explainable AI' has taken a radically different hybrid approach towards system planning, execution & validation of self-driving vehicles.
Gatik's Highly extensive knowledge has given to this with the well-defined ODD's and Hybrid planning for the gate-keeping mechanism and to continue safety of unmanned operation.
For that, they used exponentially less data to hyper optimization of this model.