Amazon Ponders Self-Driving Vehicles for More Efficient, Cheaper Delivery - ExtremeTech
Amazon has set up a skunkworks project to explore using self-driving vehicles to deliver packages. Amazon wouldn’t necessarily develop the vehicles themselves. Instead, it wants to see how driverless vehicles would improve package delivery and make Amazon more efficient.
The project was first reported Monday in the The Wall Street Journal. The group is small, only a dozen employees. The think tank, as Amazon calls it, is part of a larger and more ambitious plan that would have Amazon transport more Amazon packages itself. The big picture has Amazon buying or renting jet freighters, operating its own long-haul tracks, and making its own deliveries. It also includes the showy possibility of Amazon drone deliveries.
Amazon has set up a skunkworks project to explore using self-driving vehicles to deliver packages. Amazon wouldn’t necessarily develop the vehicles themselves. Instead, it wants to see how driverless vehicles would improve package delivery and make Amazon more efficient.
The project was first reported Monday in the The Wall Street Journal. The group is small, only a dozen employees. The think tank, as Amazon calls it, is part of a larger and more ambitious plan that would have Amazon transport more Amazon packages itself. The big picture has Amazon buying or renting jet freighters, operating its own long-haul tracks, and making its own deliveries. It also includes the showy possibility of Amazon drone deliveries.
