Self-Driving Cars Are Coming, but Self-Driving Tractors Are Already Here

These days, there’s a lot of hand-wringing over the possibility of self-driving cars on our roads. But we’ve largely overlooked the fact that, in the fields just off the side of the highway, vehicles have already been driving themselves for the last 15 years.

Self-driving tractors are becoming more common. A John Deere spokesperson told me the company currently has about 200,000 self-driving tractors on farms around the world, from the US to Germany. And they’re just one example of a major investment that the agriculture sector is making in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. When it comes to farming, AI can take many forms, from providing simple navigation like with self-driving tractors, to more complicated crop analysis and decision-making.

 
Self-Driving Tractors Are Already Here

Πηγή: American Enterprise Institute