Self driving tractors

37chief · Mar 20, 2018

Self driving tractors may be thing of the future, but I don't see how they will work out. They are trying it with cars, but that isn't working out too good. Yesterday one of the self driving cars hit and killed a J walker in Arizona. With the self driving vehicles, all I see that doing is putting a few more people out of work. From my time around electronic equipment in my factory job is, the stuff eventually fails. Just my opinion. Stan

Traditional Farmer · Mar 20, 2018

Yea but it'll probably take 2 technicians to keep it going for every one driver it replaces.

kip78 · Mar 20, 2018

Everything fails in time. How many people were hit by cars with humans driving yesterday? Should we take them off the road too?

rrlund · Mar 20, 2018

Sitting in your own house talking to people hundreds of miles away on something called a telephone? No way. It'll never work.

SodBuster87 · Mar 20, 2018

Just like everything else there will be bugs to work out but for good or bad technology marches on....

Lyndon - AB · Mar 20, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:35:56 03/20/18) Self driving tractors may be thing of the future, but I don't see how they will work out. They are trying it with cars, but that isn't working out too good. Yesterday one of the self driving cars hit and killed a J walker in Arizona. With the self driving vehicles, all I see that doing is putting a few more people out of work. From my time around electronic equipment in my factory job is, the stuff eventually fails. Just my opinion. Stan

Funny you mention self-driving tractors. They've had self-driving tractors for years already. It's called GPS with an autosteer attachment. Its been probably 8 years since I last tinkered with one, but even at that time you could get it dialed in to hold within a couple of inches of a straight line. I believe they've also come a long ways with programming turns at the headlands. It's pretty awesome when you can have an 80 ft airseeder planting precisely between the stubble rows of last years crop.

Charlie M · Mar 20, 2018

You almost have self driving tractors now with all the GPS technology being used to control them. Last summer the guy across the road from me was following down rows burning off weeds and when I looked over the driver was walking behind the tractor looking at something and the tractor was continuing down the field. Really weird to look at.

Lyndon - AB · Mar 20, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:35:56 03/20/18) Self driving tractors may be thing of the future, but I don't see how they will work out. They are trying it with cars, but that isn't working out too good. Yesterday one of the self driving cars hit and killed a J walker in Arizona. With the self driving vehicles, all I see that doing is putting a few more people out of work. From my time around electronic equipment in my factory job is, the stuff eventually fails. Just my opinion. Stan

Funny you mention self-driving tractors. They've had self-driving tractors for years already. It's called GPS with an autosteer attachment. Its been probably 8 years since I last tinkered with one, but even at that time you could get it dialed in to hold within a couple of inches of a straight line. I believe they've also come a long ways with programming turns at the headlands. It's pretty awesome when you can have an 80 ft airseeder planting precisely between the stubble rows of last years crop.

Married2Allis · Mar 20, 2018

Lots of safety issues like hitting underground cables or a gas pipeline.

37chief · Mar 20, 2018

I guess I am referring to a tractor leaving your yard unattended and returning. Not someone sitting in the seat. Stan

paul · Mar 20, 2018

It will be interesting how they sort out the insurance/ liability on those things.

We common folk do not own the software in our computers, cars, trucks, tractors. They tell us that is just leased, not ours.

So, how can it be our fault when something goes wrong?

I know they will find a way, but it will be interesting path to get there.

How do you tell your car to go out on the lake ice fishing?

Paul

Duane WI · Mar 20, 2018

You are also making the assumption that what happened in Arizona would have been prevented had a human been driving the car. We don't know that. The outcome might have been the same either way.

David G · Mar 20, 2018

Self driving tractors are pretty common no for tillage and even dozers for construction.

I noticed the Uber was speeding, who would get the ticket?

David G · Mar 20, 2018

Is that the line that got hit in Oklahoma?

ss55 · Mar 20, 2018

Every new driver and every new equipment operator makes some mistakes as they learn to drive, it's just part of the learning process.

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