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:
Were 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 weve developed on the L.I.D.A.R (Light Detection and Ranging) technology used in Googles 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.