Times are changing

Times are changing

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Taking the word autonomy to a whole new level. You know, we hear the term autonomous vehicles as in a Tesla or a combine that drives itself. First of all, what does the word autonomous mean in the dictionary? Self-governing self ruling, self-determining, independent. A likely description of the kinds of tractor's that news at scoring eg dot com president William Kanitz discussed with me.

I’ve just seen another one the other day here that they're working on. It's a total autonomous tractor. In other words, you can sit in your office and farm. You don’t have to go to a field. The tractor knows by g.p.s route. It gets to the field where it starts out in a field row and you tell it to go do its job, how deep and how fast and everything. And it monitors it continuously with cameras. 2020 here where a major change right now.

And it isn't just the good old USA administrations in places like Turkey and India are demanding a transition from diesel or engine powered farm vehicles to electrical autonomous vehicles.

And like Bob Dylan saying the question for the better.

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