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Worked my way through college in Ag during 70's and early 80's, before self driving anything. I can tell you from experience it's easy to be lulled into a sense
by jackfoxy 6y ago
Worked my way through college in Ag during 70's and early 80's, before self driving anything. I can tell you from experience it's easy to be lulled into a sense of complacency by the boredom. I'm sure the human is still there because things can go wrong in a hurry, and when they do go wrong with a piece of equipment that powerful they go wrong in a big way.
- vvanders 6y agoYeah, complacency and heavy machinery are a really bad combination. Even a smaller CUT can do an incredible amount of damage in a short period of time.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoHow did they solve this for the aviation industry? IIRC they've had autopilot for decades as well. The aviation industry seems (appearances anyway) a lot more diligent and disciplined for things like that, I mean for one they have at least two pilots to monitor things.
- red_admiral 6y agoConsidering what happened to AF447, "solved" is perhaps not 100% accurate.
- tonyarkles 6y agoHah, yup, one minute everything's fine and the next minute your combine is jammed, a belt starts slipping, and then it all catches fire. At least some of this fancy automation stuff helps catch problems like that before they get out of hand; now you just need a John Deere licensed technician to make a service call and reset the fault lockout...