Curious self-driving three-wheelers deliver orders to customers in the San Francisco Bay Area
Faction Technology, a tech startup focused on self-driving vehicle logistics, just announced a new self-driving vehicle delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
The company has partnered with Cocola Bakery, a well-known network of bakeries and pastry shops in the area, to deliver its products. using electric and autonomous three-wheelers developed by Arcimoto and ElectraMeccanica.
To make this possible, vehicles from the Faction Technology fleet they combine their self-driving capabilities with remote human support. In this way the company is able to deliver products to its customers with driverless vehicles in a safe and cost-effective way.
Faction Technology’s ambitious plans for the future
Ain McKendrick, the current executive director of Faction Technology, assures that all the experience they will accumulate in the coming months with this initiative will be very useful to continue to evolve, both their autonomous driving technology and the remote support system through human operators .
McKendrick also said the next step for the company would be to expand its driverless delivery service to new corporate customers in the San Francisco Bay Area as well. Potential commercial customers of the company would include chain restaurants, hardware stores, auto parts stores, and many others. In short, all those businesses interested in getting their products to end customers for less than two dollars per mile driven.
“Our partnership agreement with Cocola Bakery is just the beginning of what we have planned for the future at Faction Technology. We are currently meeting our cost targets and the entire delivery process, gathering all the feedback needed to bring Faction technology to many more partners starting this new year 2023.
