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Hmm... from personal experience I know that John Deere has multiple development centers around the world that definately do development on the edge of what is p

• DetroitThrow 5y ago
  >edge of what is possible, and pushing that frontier... While I understand JD has been ahead of other tractor manufacturers (electric, autonomous), the industry hasn't been anywhere close to on pace with the research investments made in these areas where the consumer auto industry has actually been pushing the frontier in research investment in these spaces for some time now - seems more like riding the wave than contributing to "frontier pushing" from their comparative R&D investment in these areas. That's not even to mention that it's not out of the imagination or even common experience to have a sitcom-tier office workplace where "interesting (to management)" teams are over-resourced while teams in charge of features that are less "interesting" but similarly important to user experience are under-resourced, seemingly in this case infosec. It's a common pattern of a company that may have lost sight of the customer, and in this case they exposed customer data. Disclaimer: not related to JD, competitors, or research mentioned in this post, but have experience with JD tractors and them being years behind on engineering but years ahead on right-to-repair advocacy.
  • vsareto 5y ago
    Consumer auto has different problems it needs to solve. A vision based system would be a waste of an investment when you have a field with basically no obstacles, and certainly no people and cars and traffic signs. It's closer to an aircraft autopilot in that respect.