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Well, the next time you get a bag of Doritos, they may have to come to you by way of a truck with no driver.
Pepsi is leaning into self-driving, launching a fleet of autonomous vehicles that will make deliveries in Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas.
Esther Fun with the Wall Street Journal was the first person to report on Pepsi using these types of trucks.
She's here with us live. Great to be with you.
This was the largest commercial driverless freight.
How did it go?
Were there any issues or hiccups in the deployment?
Hi, Elizabeth. Thank you for having me here. Um,
there wasn't any issues when I sat on the truck uh last week.
Um, at first it felt a little freaky to see the steering wheel move on its own, but after a while
it felt like a regular ride.
PepsiCo is now deploying dozens of these trucks in the three states that you've mentioned earlier and they want to do more.
>> How much more? What other states are we talking about here?
>> They would like to do it in many more states. They wouldn't really give me any names or any numbers, but so far they've been pleased with the um with the different routes that they already have.
Um they say that um there is more reliability and predictability from using these autonomous trucks and the value of on-time pickups and on-time deliveries is is real.
One of the biggest concerns that comes with these autonomous vehicles is of course job losses.
And the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union representing truck drivers, is pushing for laws requiring that a trained human be on these trucks at all times.
Now, these autonomous vehicles are not going away.
As you mentioned, there's been support uh bipartisan support for these uh types of trucks.
uh are they getting any support from lawmakers though? the union.
I mean, >> some unions are getting um support from lawmakers. Uh they they've definitely lobbed several states and their legislation have uh been pushed forward.
So, so there are some states that do not allow driverless cabs uh in in these autonomous trucks.
So, many of these autonomous truck companies still have a human operator inside of them.
And what they would like is to ultimately have driverless trucks on the roads.
>> Pepsi is the biggest company so far to use driverless trucks.
Who else is eyeing this technology?
>> Several retailers are eyeing this technology. Gateic, the autonomous truck uh company, wouldn't give me the names of the other retailers, but it would be um conservative to say that almost every single retailer is looking into this.
>> Estra Fun, thank you so much.
Thank you.
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