Managing Editor Walmart and Gatik are expanding their autonomous-truck pilot to Louisiana to deliver items from a Supercenter to a Walmart pickup point on a 20-mile route between New Orleans and Metairie. Building on the autonomous-vehicle pilot that it launched last year with Palo Alto, California-based Gatik to move customer orders on a 2-mile route between a dark store and a Neighborhood Market in its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart revealed that Gatik’s multi-temperature Autonomous Box Trucks will go fully driverless on this route, after traveling more than 70,000 operational miles in autonomous mode with a safety driver, as well as expand to neighboring Louisiana.