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>The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability. Based on what? The cummins engine they're using is bulletproof and a rounding error i
by tw04 6y ago
>The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability.
Based on what? The cummins engine they're using is bulletproof and a rounding error in the cost of the unit. Hydraulic motors will run for 10s of thousands of hours without any maintenance beyond a fluid change.
People in this thread keep claiming tractors are fully autonomous, which model? If they aren't fully autonomous, what farmer is volunteering to spend hundreds to thousands of hours in their tractor doing nothing but putting along at 5mph stop-and-go while this thing zaps weeds?
https://www.protocol.com/john-deere-farming-ai-autonomous https://www.protocol.com/john-deere-farming-ai-autonomous
- kickout 6y agoMy theory is JD,Case already have the tech to be level 4 autonomous but they haven't figured out how to make more revenue than selling $250K quad-tracs with 'some' autonomy. https://thinkingagriculture.io/the-agriculture-unicorn-hiding-in-plain-sight/ https://thinkingagriculture.io/the-agriculture-unicorn-hidin...
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoThousands... millions of farmers already putting along doing nothing but dragging a cultivator / sprayer / fertilizer spreader / bush hog / rototiller / weed badger / manure spreader etc. etc.
- tw04 6y agoI assume you haven't farmed? You don't run any of those implements at 5mph with a 3-row spread. It would literally be impossible to run a modern farm at those speeds and spread.