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Interesting. A much more controlled/limited environment than cars, but pretty high safety stakes when you're pulling a chisel plow.
by tyingq 5y ago
Interesting. A much more controlled/limited environment than cars, but pretty high safety stakes when you're pulling a chisel plow.
- kypro 5y agoLet's hope it's not easy to hack... A remote controlled tractor in the wrong hands would be terrifying.
- abakker 5y agoMore terrifying than a guy with a gun, though? Don’t get me wrong, the worst case scenario is bad. but anyone interested in creating that scenario probably has better tools at their disposal. If this tractor gets hacked, it will be to allow 3rd part spare parts.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoOne imagines the tractor could also be hacked destructively by some nation-state adversary. But probably not to drive places randomly and smash into things. The better attack is to change some engine settings so the entire fleet is ruined just before a big harvest, so there's no time to fix them. Attacking people with tractors just draws attention to your compromise.
- gtvwill 5y agoNah just up nutrients dose rates a few % and render the field unusable for years to come. Smash a whole fleet that has a lion's share of the market. Blammo food shortages across your country for years rather than just the few weeks waiting for machines yo be fixed.
- gtvwill 5y agoFar more terrifying than a man with a gun. Hack the right part of the system and you could affect food supply for years.
- abakker 5y agoI agree, but this is a tractor. You’d need to hack the fertilizing units or the chemical dispensers etc. unless I’m really mistaken this would just be a device for dragging other stuff around.
- ourmandave 5y agoA list of the most dangerous jobs puts farmers at #8 and agricultural workers at #11. https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j... The leading cause is transportation accidents. Farmers driving tractors and equipment and workers traveling to worksites. Actually a lot of the jobs list transportation incidents as the reason.
- xxpor 5y agoI feel that it’s very unappreciated that driving, by far and away, is the most dangerous thing most people do on a daily basis.