DoorDash Begins Dot Deliveries in City of Fremont

FREMONT - DoorDash's autonomous delivery device, Dot, is officially making deliveries in the City of Fremont. Dot, which is manufactured in Fremont at Sonic Manufacturing Technologies, is built to bring orders straight to your door. One-tenth the size of a car, fully electric, and street-friendly, Dot is engineered for safe, reliable trips through your neighborhood and proudly developed in-house by our team at DoorDash Labs.

"We're proud to start deliveries in Fremont after months of research, development, and collaboration with the City. Fremont restaurants can reach more customers, consumers have a convenient, sustainable way to support local businesses, and our partnership with the City of Fremont is taking another important step forward. Dot is only successful if the communities we serve are positively impacted by its presence. Incorporating feedback to continuously improve Dot's functionality in Fremont guidance how and when we choose to expand."

- Ashu Rege, Vice President of Autonomy and Head of DoorDash Labs

Partnership with the City and the Community

DoorDash will continue working in close coordination with the City of Fremont and community coalitions as this partnership progresses. That feedback will ensure Dot is performing in a way that's positive for the community and in service of our shared goals to benefit customers and merchants.

Dot Comes to Fremont

DoorDash's deployment in Fremont comes after months of collaboration and the signing of an encroachment permit, ensuring compliance with municipal code and public safety standards. Based on DoorDash's experience with autonomous delivery in other cities, they have a standardized Operating Plan and Incidence Response Procedure, and will have speed limitations.

The initial service area includes the Downtown/City Center, Centerville, and Irvington areas of Fremont. Dot's primary travel corridors will be Fremont Boulevard, Walnut Avenue, Mowry Avenue, Stevenson Boulevard, and Paseo Padre Parkway.

• Phase 1A: DoorDash would only operate up to 10 robots for community engagement, testing and demonstration purposes, during which robots are chaperoned by local operators.

• Phase 1B: Based on the experiences and feedback from Phase 1A, an amended permit has been issued by Public Works to gradually allow more robots in increments to operate autonomously within the Service Area and with the capability to be operated remotely as needed.

• Phase 2: Continued ongoing operations and expansion of service would be subject to a separate review and approval process.

DoorDash's deployment of Dot has been set up to follow a measured set of steps that ensure public safety and takes community engagement and feedback into account as part of that engagement process This partnership highlights Fremont's leadership in advanced robots and commercial vibrancy, especially in its growing Downtown.

DoorDash Labs

Dot represents the next phase in DoorDash's mission to grow and empower local economies. Combining purpose-built autonomous robots with its existing delivery network will create a more efficient, sustainable, and accessible delivery ecosystem. Watch Dot in action HERE.