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A12 TECHNOLOGY
Thursday 17 March 2022

Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles?

Head to a farm

cause of soil conditions, the
amount of fertilizer applied
or other factors.
The autonomous tractor will
now let farmers hook up a
plow behind a tractor, start
the machine with a swipe
of a smart phone and then
leave it to rumble up and
down a field on its own.
The driverless tractors are
equipped with six pairs of
This 2021 photo provided by John Deere shows an autonomous cameras that work like hu-
tractor plowing a field, without a driver, on a farm in Blue Earth,
Minn. man eyes and can provide
Associated Press a 360-degree image. When
filtered through computer
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — new technology will be algorithms, the tractor is
For years Americans have added onto tractors that able to determine where
been told autonomous sell for about $500,000, said it is in the field and will
technology was improving Ben Haber, a company abruptly stop if there is any-
and that driverless vehicles spokesman. The company thing unfamiliar in its path.
were just around the cor- plans to operate the au- Farmers often grow crops
ner. tonomous tractors on 10 to on different parcels of land
Finally they're here, but to 50 farms by this fall before that are miles apart, so
catch a glimpse of them, significantly increasing the while the tractor plows in
you'll need to go to a farm number in following years. one field a farmer can work
rather than look along city For the past decade, the at another, drive into town
streets. supposedly imminent de- for supplies or spend time
Beginning this fall, green but of autonomous ve- with their families at home.
14-ton tractors that can hicles on city streets and Given that less than 2% of
plow day or night with no freeways has been repeat- Americans work on farms
one sitting in the cab, or edly pushed off as compa- and rural populations have
even watching nearby, will nies struggled to guaran- dwindled for decades, the
come off the John Deere tee their safety. autonomous tractors also
factory assembly line in But, Rajkumar notes, trac- are expected to help with
Waterloo, Iowa, harkening tors have it easier because chronic labor shortages.q
the age of autonomous they don't need to contend
farming. with other vehicles, pedes-
The development follows trians or the complexities of
more than a decade-long an urban scene. Tractors
effort by the world's larg- can make use of consistent
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