Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your
front door so it could leave packages inside your home,
and a certain number of extremely trusting Amazon Prime
subscribers (Amazon won’t say how many) said okay.
Now, the tech giant wants to do the same thing with your
Car.
Amazon announced today a new service that gives its
couriers access to a person’s vehicle for the purpose
of leaving package deliveries inside. But rather than
use smart locks and a cloud-connected camera to gain
entry, Amazon wants to use the connected technologies
embedded in many modern vehicles today. The company
is launching this new service in partnership with two major
automakers — General Motors and Volvo — and will be
“We were really happy with the response to in-home
delivery,” Peter Larsen, vice president of delivery
technology at Amazon, told The Verge. “What we wanted
to do — and it was part of the plan all along — is how we
take that beyond the home.”
Amazon has been beta testing the new service in California
and Washington state for the past six months. In a video by
Amazon, a woman said she likes getting diapers delivered
to her car because it meant her toddlers could nap without
being disturbed by the doorbell. Another woman used it to
have a few birthday presents delivered to the trunk of her car
so as not to tip off her daughter.
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