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8. Dominos Pizza Roll Out Driverless Delivery Vehicles Called Domi-No Drivers

Dominos jumped on the April 1 bandwagon with an official announcement: they were ready to release the world's first driverless delivery vehicles called the 'Domi-No Driver'. It's not completely out of the realms of possibility, especially when you think how soon Google are hoping to put driverless vehicles on the road, but it's still far-fetched and yet it didn't stop people from tweeting about it. In a mock statement, a Dominos staff member explained the thinking behind their innovation:
We€™re not doing it just for the €˜wow€™ factor, there are a range of innovation benefits too €“ the space we save by not having a driver means the Domi-No-Driver can carry four times as many pizzas as our previous generation of PDVs (People Driven Vehicles). The fact we€™ve developed on the L.I.D.A.R (Light Detection and Ranging) technology used in Google€™s driverless cars and equipped our Domi-No-Drivers with H.U.N.G.A.R (Hunger Detection and Ranging) to help them detect and navigate real-time obstacles, shows just how safe and sophisticated they are.
It's essentially a load of tech gobbledygook, but they win points for the cool concept art and CGI involved in videos of their product in action.
 
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