WalMart files patent for an autonomous vehicle

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Originally Posted by Wyodaniel

Given Walmart's adversity to so much as a fraction of a percentage increase in spending, this seems unlikely to me, somehow. They are ALL about slashing costs all the way from manufacturing to point of sale; Wouldn't it be cheaper for them to continue to pay kids $11 / hr to round up carts from the parking lot than to spend millions, probably hundreds of millions replacing their carts with robots?

Key word, patent. They may not use it, but someone else might.