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Self steering vehicles
There is a valid application for such equipment, agriculture.
A modern planter, drawn by a 500 hp tractor, is so complicated, the 'driver' has no time to steer the tractor, so rely's on the auto steer function.
And whilst we are on the subject, electric tractors are not gunna work, ever, unless some really radical breakthroughs in tech happen. EG: A 500 hp tractor, say 380 kw, usually runs at pretty well full power, or sometimes more, when planting,harvesting etc. At that power, the biggest Tesla battery, which is 120 kwh, would last 120/380 hours, or about 18 minutes. Then another battery will be needed, giving another 18 minutes of work, now continue that for 23 hours a day during harvest, and you will need nearly 70 battery's, at $30k each. Got a spare 2 million ?
There is an application, the market garden with a 30 hp tractor would work.
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