Google’s self-driving car business (now known as Waymo) is still working on minivans, but a company created by two ex-Googlers who worked on the company’s driverless cars are after a different goal. Nuro wants to make a specialized vehicle that will run deliveries in the gig economy.
After years of waiting, the promise of self-driving cars seems to work better as a thought experiment than a practical reality (for now). Which makes Nuro’s existence yet another layer on that thought experiment. Namely, can the gig economy handle self-driving cars doing the jobs humans only recently discovered they can do?
The concept behind Nuro is that, instead of having space for passengers or even large amounts of cargo like a semi-truck, the Nuro features gull-wing door compartments where you can fit pizza, groceries, flowers, or anything else that you can get delivered. Instead of relying on…
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