Ford plan to take home delivery to the next level

Ford have big plans to take home- delivery to a whole new level by launching their ‘auto delivery’ concept; autonomous vehicles and drones could work simultaneously to take care of your groceries and food orders. As a part of their ‘city of tomorrow’ Ford plan to overcome mobility challenges in urban environments. This includes gridlock and air pollution problems, to ensure a healthy and smooth running future. 

A robotic riding platform ‘carr-E’ and innovation tricycle for getting around the city, ‘TriCiti’ was demonstrated at the mobile world congress in Barcelona. This will further Ford’s aim of having a fully autonomous, vehicles for commercial application in mobility services and will include ride sharing, ride hailing or package delivery fleets in 2021. self-driving vans could quickly and efficiently transport everything from groceries to urgently needed medical supplies on the ground, with drones potentially able to take to the air for the final leg of the journey to reach destinations inaccessible by car, such as high up in a tower block – or where parking would be difficult, impractical, or unsafe.

‘ford has at its heart a culture of disruption and innovation designed to come up with solutions that put people first, to save them time, money and aggravation, and also to make our cities easier to navigate and better to live in,’ said Ken Washington, Vice President at Ford. 

The auto delivery concept pays particular attention to the challenge of the ‘last 15 meters’ in good delivery. Widely considered the most challenging part of the goods delivery process to automate, many companies are working on how to solve the complexity of delivering packages the last 15 meters or from kerb to door.

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