Kroger launches driverless delivery robots in Houston this spring

Busy mom Patricia Donnelly thinks the cars can be the best way to get time back with their family.

"I have three children, I work full time," Donnelly said. "Having someone get me my food sounds like quite awesome sometimes."

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The driverless grocery deliveries will be offered in the stores at South Post Oak Road and Buffalo Speedway. That means you can take advantage of the service if your area code is 77401[ads1], 77096, 77005 or 77025.

"We are basically going to deliver with our Prius vehicles, so they are passenger vehicles like regular Priuses that we have added sensing and calculation so that they can drive themselves, "said Nuro co-founder and president Dave Ferguson." There will still be security drivers in them. "

Ferguson says they hope there will be a few weeks before the fully unmanned vehicle itself driving on the road.

If your local Kroger is one of the two chosen places, simply order your food online or through the Kroger app, then select the time slot for delivery the same day or the next day, and the price is just $ 5.95

"When you go out to greet the vehicle, there is a touch screen on the one similar to an iPad, and you can enter your unique code and then just open your room," Ferguson said.

Shoppers like John Jones says he's worried about the safety of a car without a human driver.

"Leery. I just don't think we're there yet to have a driverless car," Jones said.

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Ferguson says that most breakdowns occur worldwide because of human error.

"We generally feel that when you remove passengers from the vehicle, you can make it much safer for everyone else on the road," Ferguson said. "For example, the vehicle is much smaller, it is much lighter, it collapses in the unlikely event of a collision."

If you have questions, you are not alone.

City of Bellaire Assistant Police Officer Onesmio Lopez said his first step: working to form a research team so they know how to deal with an event with a car that does not have a driver.

"Most of the Bellaire crashes, over 60 percent of them, were either the back or side walls, and we hope the technology will adapt to it," Lopez said.

While there are many questions, Lopez currently says to treat the cars as common drivers.

"There are cameras, they have radars, they seem to be very aware of what's going on around them, and at least from published literature, they seem very safe," Lopez said.

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