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Re:Would You Want This Job? Hard work, middle of Kansas by icky on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @04:12PM (#201355)
(Because people can't stand the thought of robots touching their food with their shiny metal robo-claws!)

Farming on private property is an entirely different scenario than having robot vehicles on public roads. I doubt he'd need anybody's approval to set things up that way.

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Re:Would You Want This Job? Hard work, middle of Kansas by menloparkbum on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @04:26PM (#201370)
It would also help if robots that could do the work actually existed.
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Re:Would You Want This Job? Hard work, middle of Kansas by icky on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @04:29PM (#201371)
In most scenarios where robots would be replacing human labor (especially in safety-critical areas like trucking), the engineering problems are a lot more tractable than the political ones.

GPS-guided farming seems like one of the simpler scenarios, and if finding labor is as difficult as the original post claims, one of the more likely ones, as well.

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