System and mechanism for upselling products on autonomous vehicles

A platform for autonomously or semi-autonomously upselling an unordered item to a customer, the platform comprising:

• a) an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle comprising:
• (i) a locking compartment configured to contain and secure at least an item ordered by the customer and at least an item unordered by the customer, wherein the locking compartment comprises a sensor configured to detect an absence of at least one of the ordered item and the unordered item;
• (ii) an input device configured to receive at least one of a customer verification and a selection of the unordered item by the customer;
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• (iii) an autonomous or semi-autonomous propulsion system;
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• b) the platform further comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with a computer program including instructions executable by a processor to create an application comprising:
• (i) an ordering module configured to receive an order from the customer, the order comprising the ordered item and a customer location;
• (ii) a delivery module controlling the autonomous or semi-autonomous propulsion system to direct the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to the customer location;
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• (iii) a customer verification module confirming an identity of the customer based on the customer verification and unlocking the locking compartment based on the confirmation of the identity of the customer;
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• (iv) a release detection module determining that the ordered item has been removed from the compartment based on the absence of the ordered item, determining that the unordered item has been removed from the compartment based on the absence of the unordered item, or both.