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John Deere's New Self-Driving, Autonomous Tractor Costs $500,000 and Can be Controlled from a PhoneTesla’s self-driving car may be all the rage, but for Minnesota farmer Doug Nimz, that’s old news: he’s been testing autonomous technology on his 2,000-acre corn and soybean farm for John Deere for four years.In early January, John Deere announced its fully autonomous farming tractor to the world in CES 2022. Rather than creating a wholly brand-new tractor, the company improved its popular self-steering 8R tractor by adding two things: a 12 stereo camera system and an Nvidia GPU that let the farmer control the tractor from a smartphone.John Deere’s autonomous tractor system relies on a camera pod of 3 pairs of stereo cameras located at the front of the tractor. The cameras act like human eyes: images taken by the left- and right-side cameras are combined to let the tractor identify obstacles 45 to 90 feet ahead.While an autonomous tractor would surely help the agriculture industry, where labor is an ever-present problem, John Deere is not without its critics. For one, the new autonomous tractor is priced at $500,000 - a cost that puts it out-of-reach of many small farmers.#selfdriving #tractor #JohnDeere #autonomousvehicle #farming
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