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In brief: Another milestone has been reached in our rapid and often worrying shift toward a Futurama-like world. PepsiCo has become the first major US consumer-goods company to boast a full-scale deployment of autonomous trucks on public roads, with 35 self-driving vehicles delivering goods in Arizona, five in Texas, and one in Arkansas.
The trucks are moving PepsiCo products including Doritos, Cheetos, other Frito-Lay snacks, and drinks such as Gatorade. The routes run between bottling plants, storage facilities, and stores, including Walmart and Dollar General.
It's not a small pilot with someone in the driver's seat ready to grab the wheel, either: these are driverless runs in live commercial networks.
