Technology
DoorDash opens text ordering to a beta and unveils its own delivery drone
DoorDash used its Dash Forward event to open a US iPhone waitlist for a beta that puts an ordering assistant inside Apple's Messages app, letting customers describe a meal, build a cart and check out without opening DoorDash. Particle reported a preview pilot of roughly 20,000 users is already running. The company also unveiled DoorDash Air, a purpose-built six-propeller aircraft now flying a pilot in northern California with partners including Chipotle and Popeyes, and said Dasher Returns, a paid pickup-for-returns service, expands nationwide in November.