If plans pan out, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) e-commerce shoppers in Bentonville, Arkansas, could be picking up orders delivered by fully autonomous vehicles by next summer.
That’s the ambitious timeline that Sam Saad, head of operations for Gatik, an autonomous vehicle startup, explained during a fireside chat Friday as part of FreightWaves’ Cold Chain Summit. Saad told interviewer Kevin Hill, director of research and editorial for FreightWaves, that he hoped fully autonomous vehicles would be on the...