The future finally arrived yesterday when Domino’s announced it’s going to start delivering pizza with driverless cars.

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Pizza wasn’t even a thing til after World War II.   Long before that.. in the 1700’s… the first pizza came out an oven in Naples Italty smothered in oil and tomato.  It’d be a long time before they’d top it with cheese.  Or Pineapple.

On these shores Italian immigrants first served pizza in 1895 in big cities.   But it only bubbled across the country after World War II … when troops stationed in Italy got to enjoy real Neopolitan pizza.  After that… its popularity exploded.

And yesterday’s announcement by Dominos… could be one of the most important in pizza history.

They’re testing pizza delivery in a driverless car… at one Dominos in Houston.   You prepay on the app… and you check a box if you want driverless delivery.   You track the pizza’s trip on GPS… and then a Nuro R2 autonomous car pulls into the driveway.   It’s a 4 foot tall white push-me pull you.  It’s 8 feet long and you can barely tell which is the front and which is the back.

You have to go get the pizza from the Nuro.   When you order they give you a pin number.  Enter it on the side of the car and a door gently swings upward revealing your hot delicious pizza… hopefully without pineapples. 

And as the door gently closes… you can smile …realizing that you didn’t have to tip a pizza guy.   

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