Tesla may be synonymous with semi-autonomous cars on the road, but self-driving tractors are taking over fields.
A new study finds that global positioning satellite (GPS) systems are used on over 40 percent of all US farm and ranch acreage for on-farm production. Experts say that car makers have a lot to learn from automated tractors.
“Before consumers enjoy the full benefits of autonomy, it must be perfected in more confined situations, such as a fixed route on a farm,” Aaron English, a product marketing manager at Ouster, which builds 3D lidar sensors for use in autonomous vehicles, told Lifewire in an email interview. “Learnings from the AI-based software and sensor stacks as part of the overall autonomous system can be applied to consumer vehicles to make them safer as automakers introduce new driver assistance capabilities on the path to fully autonomous vehicles.”
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