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I can see a seat in the picture, so you would expect that driving it by hand to be a fallback. It isn't ideal, but might be a good enough solution for their use

• AdriaanvRossum 5y ago
  You probably need to drive the tractor over public road yourself.
  • bluGill 5y ago
    Yes, as A John Deere employee who cannot speak for the company I can tell you this is carefully targeted only to things where you drive to the field, your spouse follows in a car to bring you back home and you hit start. The important part of this story is we can assume that even in the worst case nobody will be hurt as no humans are anywhere close. This is a much easier problem than driving on roads where there are other cars, bicycles, and other pedestrians. Also in operation the tractor will be slow enough that most humans and animals can outrun it, and it is visible enough that they will. Any farming operation where humans might possibly be around this won't work for. We want this to be full autonomous, but the technology isn't ready. The primary purpose of this is to target great engineers (ie the people who read hacker news) with the idea that we are an exciting company to work for. I personally have some code in this tractor, and I know the people who work on it. We have lots of open positions, the jobs are fun (as hard as any other engineering of course), and you might want to join us.