Will consumers have an appetite for robot-car grocery deliveries?

Anitha Arackaparampil likes the idea of robot cars delivering groceries to her Burlingame home for her family of four — in theory.

In reality, deliveries she’s received from test runs by a pilot project of digital grocer Farmstead and autonomous van maker Udelv had issues.

With regular deliveries, a driver brings them to her door. With autonomous deliveries, customers are summoned by text to retrieve their goods from the vehicle, to simulate what the driverless future will be like.

Carolyn Said

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