Walmart Will Test Its Driverless Grocery Delivery Service In Scottsdale

Walmart shoppers in Scottsdale will soon be able to have their groceries delivered to them via a self-driving car.

The big box store announced on Tuesday that it's partnering with General Motor's Cruise to launch a pilot program sometime next year in Scottsdale, Tech Crunch reported.

Few details have been revealed about the program or when it will begin, but it will include a fleet of self-driving, electric Chevy Bolt cars dropping groceries off at customers' homes. Walmart is using electric cars for the program as part of its mission to reduce its carbon emissions to zero.

"Technology that has the potential to not only save customers time and money but also is helpful to the planet is technology we want to learn more about," the company wrote in a blog post.

Walmart has been testing out different means of contact-less delivery for about the past year or so. It previously partnered with autonomous vehicle companies Gatik and Nuro, and is also trying out drone delivery.

The Valley is a popular test market for self-driving vehicle services. Google's Waymo launched its driver-less taxi service here in early October, and Uber was testing out its own fleet of driverless cars before a fatal accident in 2018.

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