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And what about those spotted youths sitting a house near a main road hacking? One click of their mice and all cars turn around and head off in the opposite direction.
The mines use driverless vehicles a lot the great big ore carriers are largely driverless.
Rio Tinto has 73 autonomous behemoths transporting iron ore 24 hours a day in West Angelas, Australia, across four job sites, according to MIT Tech Review. The autonomous fleet is roughly 15% cheaper than one with human drivers.
The trucks, made by Japanese manufacturer Komatsu, weigh 416 tons and use a mix of GPS, radar, and laser sensors to navigate a site. Their job is simple: go to a load site, wait to be filled with iron ore, and then drive to another location. Komatsu estimates that their autonomous trucks have already hauled 1 billion tons of material, mainly in Australia and Chile.
That's very true Bruce and a great use of the technology in a contolled environment, but on normal roads, with real traffic and real pedestrians and real unforseens? I fear that is a long, long way off yet...
That's very interesting Bruce, thanks for posting it but when you've got over sixty million people living on an island the size of a postage stamp no thank you....
That's very interesting Bruce, thanks for posting it but when you've got over sixty million people living on an island the size of a postage stamp no thank you....
I would have thought you'd be able to walk everywhere