{"id":4736,"date":"2017-08-30T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2017-08-30T19:23:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:23:30","slug":"dominos-testing-fords-self-driving-vehicle-deliver-pizzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/dominos-testing-fords-self-driving-vehicle-deliver-pizzas\/","title":{"rendered":"Domino\u2019s testing Ford\u2019s self-driving vehicle to deliver pizzas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor and Domino\u2019s Pizza have begun a test to use self-driving vehicles to deliver pizzas to customers.<!--more-->The Detroit-based automaker is providing a self-driving Ford Fusion Hybrid car equipped with Ford\u2019s full suite of cameras, sensors, radar for testing in Ann Arbor city of Michigan state for about a month and a half, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the car will not be operated in autonomous mode. One Ford engineer hidden behind tinted windows will drive the car and another will monitor inputs from the car\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be the first experiment with advanced pizza delivery technology. Australia-based Domino\u2019s Pizza has tested delivery to customers in New Zealand through drones and self-driving robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re interested to learn what people think about this type of delivery,\u201d said Russell Weiner, President of Domino\u2019s US.<\/p>\n<p>Sherif Marakby, Ford Vice President, said that as a company focused on the customer experience, Domino\u2019s shares their vision for a future enabled by smart vehicles in a smart environment that enhance people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ford CEO Jim Hackett had said the company expected to launch a self-driving vehicle for commercial ride-sharing fleets in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor and Domino\u2019s Pizza have begun a test to use self-driving vehicles to deliver pizzas to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}