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There's probably a lot of savings to be had by lifting safety rules. Cram more machines to do more work on site and finish faster.

• beachy 3y ago
  I think this is great tech, but maybe not for those reasons. On any safe site, people are already very cautious and working well back from the excavator. Some teams have a protocol where you have to make eye contact with the digger driver before you can go anywhere within the sweep of its arm.
  • maxglute 3y ago
    But without the excavator operator, can you not cram more autonomous excavators to get more work done? Seems like sufficiently good sensors would allow them to work in each others safety zones for parallel work.
    • bluGill 3y ago
      Probably not as the soil they ig needs to go someplace. That means dump trucks will still be the majority of the site.