Walmart tests self-driving cars for grocery delivery in Houston

A Wal-Mart customer loads groceries into her car outside of a Wal-Mart store on February 20, 2014 in San Lorenzo, California.Walmart announced a partnership with the robotics company Nuro on Tuesday to test a system for delivering groceries with self-driving vehicles beginning in January 2020.

The retail giant has been in the grocery delivery business since 2011, when it first began to pilot a program in California that allowed customers to order their groceries online, Reuters reported. This new program with the California-based tech company, which has worked on autonomous vehicles in the past, will be tested in one Walmart grocery store in Houston, Texas, the fourth-largest city in the United States by population.

"The Walmart mission is to help people save money so they can live better," Nuro noted in a blog post published Tuesday about the partnership."Walmart's dedication to its customers aligns with Nuro's mission of accelerating the benefits of robotics for everyday life through improved convenience and delightful experience."

The service will be available at the Walmart Neighborhood Market location at 9700 Hillcroft Street in Houston, a spokesperson for Walmart toldin an email. The spokesperson also wrote that the self-operating vehicles will deliver in the ZIP codes 77096, 77035 and 77401. The three ZIP codes cover an area near Rice University, located in southwestern part of Harris County.

Part of the 77035 ZIP code delivery area falls within one of Houston's many"food deserts," or areas where fresh, healthy food is not readily available to residents, according to the Houston Area Food Access Analysis Tool. As reported by the the, almost 250,000 people in the Houston area do not have access to nutritious food. They are only part of the estimated 23.5 million Americans living in food deserts.

A whole new version of people of Walmart on its way

I can scarcely imagine a worse city to test self driving cars before they are perfected than Houston.

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