Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators, might be further along than many autonomous vehicles. In fact, CEO Noah Ready-Campbell insists you’ll see autonomous vehicles in controlled industrial environments — like construction sites — before you see level 5 driverless cars on public roads. That may be in part because autonomous construction equipment often operates on privately owned land, while public roads face increased regulatory scrutiny.
“There’s a quote that ‘Cold fusion is 20 years in the future and always will be,’” Ready-Campbell told VentureBeat on Wednesday. “I think there’s a chance that that might be true for level 5 self-driving cars as well.”
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