We tested the future grocery store on wheels will Take.en

Take.no/Fornebu: In the day showed the Colonial.no forward the world’s first self-driving grocery store. With such a craft you will be able to shop easier and cheaper in the future, claim nettmatbutikken.

the Technology is already well on the way ready to set out in live. The problem lies in the legislation, which currently prevents Colonial to start up the project.

– We have the technology to to. What we need now is a regulation that allows us to use the opportunities. We are working to be the first in the world that delivers foods in this way, ” says founder and managing director of Colonial.no, Karl Munthe-Kaas.

the Minister is positive to the idea

The place was also minister of transport and communication Ketil Solvik-Olsen. He is aware that efforts are being made to get self-driving cars legal on the road within a short time.

Ketil Solvik-Olsen and Karl Munthe-Kaas are both ready to get self-driving cars on the road. Photo: Ole Henrik Johansen / Tek.en

A proposal all around the legislation for autonomous cars will probably be presented for the Norwegian Parliament already in the spring. Goes through can we we see the first self-driving cars already for the summer, ” Solvik-Olsen.

He refers to the development of both electric vehicles and self-driving systems have been a completely different focus among the producers now than in the past.

two years ago were not these vehicles as a topic at board meetings of the major automakers. Now is the main focus. Here, we have to show that Norway is a place where we facilitate to try us out, just like Colonial is willing to. These experiences provide us valuable data, says Solvik-Olsen.

the Minister explains that the technology for autonomous vehicles have come very far in a short time and believes that it is not necessarily the hardware that is the challenge.

the Challenge is to develop good enough software for these cars. We want a system that makes things as efficiently as possible, where the cars are, for example, always select the fastest and best way, says Solvik-Olsen.

This leveringsbilen is no rocket. Usually running it at 20 km/h. Photo: Ole Henrik Johansen / Tek.en

the Cars are expensive

as long as are self-driving cars expensive to make. The car as A show called EZ10, and cost approximately 1.8 to 2 million – configured as bus. Colonial.no will on their side, possibly have a vehicle built to download the most foods.

– As with much other technology as is also, these new vehicles are expensive at the moment. However, we have received estimates that these will be able to creep significantly in price. A manufacturer believed that a construction cost around 20 000 euro will be probably with the time, ” explains Munthe-Kaas.

the Model we get promoted has a cruise speed of 20 km/h, while the potential has a maximum speed of twice that. As delivery vehicles, we get informed that the car will be able to carry with them up to 1700 kilograms) of cargo, and that it will be able to run up to 14 hours before it needs recharging.

the Bus we got to see in the day still had the seats in place. Colonial.no will hardly have these when the goods are to be delivered to your home. Photo: Ole Henrik Johansen / Tek.en

Will be an addition to the current systems

Colonial.en today thousands of customers who get foods its delivered to your home at your door – or who gets the orders from one of several pick-up points.

to verify that the orders are extracted by the right person, will the same system that is used at our pick-up stations could also be taken in the use of the self-driving car.

– We will use the same system as in the day when you shall bring out your goods. We envision that via the app will receive information about when the car is approaching the region, and that you then can collect the goods by for example, keying in a code. In addition, there will be video cameras on board in the car that films what you take with you, ” explains Munthe-Kaas.

Can save you a lot of money

If the legislation comes into place is so Colonial.en ready to use self-driving cars. Even though the price of the cars will be stiff in the beginning, believe, professor in economics, Alte Guttormsen, that you as the consumer will save a solid free money.

He uses himself as an example, where he today lives a few hundred metres away from a Rema 1000 store.

I have counted a good deal on this, and given that you give yourself a “straightforward timeslønn” for the time you use, as well as that, we are taking the cost of to start and stop the car to and from the store, you will probably reduce the matbudsjettet with around 1/3 of the total set, explains Guttormsen.

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