Walmart: We have self-driving cars so why not self-driving shopping carts? read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/891-walmart-we-have-self-driving-cars-so-why-not-self-driving-shopping-carts

Walmart is now working on a self-driving shopping cart to improve the customer experience and its sales. Walmart has filed a patent to develop a self-driving shopping cart that has a motor and video cameras.

The Walmart patent application says the self-driving cart can help improve the customer experience, specifically when employees are busy, or are too new to know where everything is in the store. The best part is, it would also be able to return itself from customers’ cars to the store.

 

 

 

Companies file patents all the time, and an application or even a granted patent doesn’t mean a company is actively working on a product. 

While Google, Uber and many other big companies working on Self driving cars, Walmart also entered into the automation field with self-driving  shopping cart.

 

All this talk of not self-driving shopping carts raises a few questions: Given the problem of shopping cart theft, could a self-driving cart also be equipped with a self-parking mechanism. And how fast would these things operate, anyway? Would they be moving slowly enough that an innocent, olive oil-gazing civilian could dive out of the way.? We must wait to until the product unveiled by Walmart into the market.