App-based companies have publicly spoken for years about the money-saving potential of autonomous vehicles. These firms have poured billions of dollars into recruiting and managing the independent contractors who do the delivering and driving for them, and millions more ensuring they’ll stay independent contractors and not employees. What if the firms could skip all that? What if robots did all the work, or at least some of it?
Still, with today’s announcement, DoorDash is throwing its lot into an…
