Kroger — not Uber, Google or Cruise — may be on the leading edge of driverless adoption
For all the multi-billion-dollar investments by automakers and Silicon Valley, regulatory hand-wringing around the globe, and geeky excitement on the part of some tech mavens about driverless automobiles, the earliest adoption of full-on autonomous driving is far more likely to be in the commercial-fleet arena than in the realm of individual consumers.