Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
by rdouble on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:00PM
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Where do farmers use driverless equipment? I live in a farming community and nobody uses driverless equipment.
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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
by randomdata on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:15PM
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When I say driverless, I'm not precluding the presence of an operator.
John Deere's iTEC Pro, for example, is capable of controlling the tractor, but still requires an operator to be in the cab, just in case. Although here's a fun video of someone who disabled the safety sensors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU4liQvrcm4
I don't know of any large operator that isn't using at least autosteer, which, for things like cultivating essentially is driverless. For what it is worth, I come from an area of grain farmers.