Just over a year after it removed the safety driver from the driver's seat in Arkansas, autonomous vehicle technology company Gatik has done it again — this time north of the border in Canada.

Gatik on Wednesday announced that it is now running fully driverless vehicles in Toronto with longtime partner Loblaw Companies. Gatik's multi-temperature box trucks are transporting online grocery orders for Loblaw's PC Express service.

"Working with Gatik, we've demonstrated that autonomous driving technology enables supply chain efficiency, moving more orders more frequently for our customers," said David Markwell, chief technology and analytics officer for Loblaw, Canada's largest retailer. "Being the first in Canada with this technology and deploying a fully driverless solution is exciting and illustrates our commitment to making grocery shopping better for customers."

Gatik first removed the driver from a vehicle in August 2021 in Arkansas, where its trucks are transporting goods for Walmart (NYSE: WMT) between a dark store and a neighborhood market.

In Toronto, the vehicles being used at Ford models upfit with a temperature-controlled box.

The Loblaw (TSX: L.TO) program marks the first time a vehicle has operated in Canada without a driver behind the wheel. The two companies have worked together since January 2020, completing more than 150,000 autonomous deliveries (with a safety driver) with no incidents, Gatik said.