Caterpillar's Autonomous Mining Truck
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- While Sandy was at CES he talked to Jag Samaraweera, Commercial Consultant for Command for Hauling at CAT and checks out their autonomous mining truck!
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Jeff Dougherty was in the background. Hi Jeff!!!
Sandy,
I had control of the design of that 777 cab for a couple years. They make them in Mexico and India and even in Russia for use in the local markets. The biggest improvement in safety going to autonomous systems is the removal of the need for operators to climb on and off of the machines between shifts and breaks. The operators can slip or trip going up and down ladders. In addition the lowest ladders can get damaged by driving over debris or too near berms. Its a real challenge to get egress systems safe and durable.
The next item that is great for autonomy is to get rid of the need for the air conditioner in these machines. These ac systems are adapted from the automotive world. If you have a machine getting 5000-6000 hours per year, the air conditioner is one of the weak links in the system that will fail. Its like a lifetime in a car happening every year. In some mines, no air conditioning can shut down the machine.
Underground mines (and even these 777 trucks run underground) are the next big use case for battery powered machines. The whole mine ventilation systems needed for the diesel exhaust are so expensive that it pays off quickly to use battery powered machines. Once the system is designed and refined, it can be adapted to above ground rapidly. But battery cost needs to drop.
Aren‘t these electric already (Diesel-electric) ?
Dunno where I got this from, I am not entirely sure.
If my memory doesn’t fool me, even the motor would not need to be changed, essentially only the fuelant aka switching to a battery ?
@@pan6593 Some are diesel electric, but most from caterpillar are mechanical drive. When Cat bought Bucyrus in 2010, they got Unit Rig along with it. Those trucks were re-branded to be cat trucks. Cat also developed electric versions of some of their trucks. The battery electric trucks I believe are using Switched reluctance motors instead of A/C motors. Drivetrains were not my area. I had cabs. For most of my career there, I had Wheel loader cabs and electrical systems. But later I had Articulated truck cabs and Then 770-777 truck cabs. Eventually everything will be have a battery electric version.
There's so much media focus on the passenger car market. Cars being driven a few hours a day at most. Mining trucks are running near 24/7 it seems. It would be nice if Tesla can make their Semi in volume to see how that could be integrated into a mining scenario. Tesla supposedly already have megawatt Supercharging, too. It has been revealed that the extra motors are to capture more energy regen braking, just what's needed in a mine. Charging could be as little as 15 minutes twice a day or less.
I work in The Oilsands and have noted routine loads of 500 tons all in. Think on how 12 hour days affect a driver especially if they're working 12 days on and two off. It can be minus -40 or plus 40'C. Add a rough terrain as well as rain, snow, dust, or whatever you can think of. It's a tough demanding job which I'm happy to say I don't do. If I did, I'd be finding my way into the control tower. I've seen the future and it's on Munroe Live.
Yer it's boring as well I only last 2 weeks and went back to milling
@@walterrwrush I've never driven one. My role is as a steamfitter. We just had a vantage point where the weight was shown on every truck that passed by. Sorry if I mislead.
Spot on Sandy, electrification of commercial and mining vehicles is a huge sector that most people don't consider when discussing EVs
Unless the dump truck gets to only bring ore down a mountain, it's going to need a ginormous battery.
There is a new technology about to be made public that does away with more of the battery. Oddly it's been on the market for over a decade, but used by MANY companies, but it's been kept under the radar. Gonna ruin people's battery investments. Existing investments in range cells would be switching to power cells.
When is Munro going to do a Cat teardown?
They will need a much bigger shop.. lol.. the really big cat trucks are massive. Pictures and videos don't really do them justice. We have a bunch of the autonomous cat trucks at my work.
I'm waiting for the dog teardown.
Who is building the EV battery pack for Caterpillar?
@@alinthemind Actually, it's a LONG extension cord.
He's gonna need a higher ceiling and some bigger tools first.
What a great video! So cool to see Sandy and Jag explain and showcase this stuff. Always fun to see what is next!?
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, the second release certainly worked for me. Didn't watch it the first time, now I do! Keep up the great work!
Thanks, will do!
I agree, I love that they get vidoes out fast after an event, I miss them as I can't keep up with their editing team ;) The stupid algoritm never brings these back up.
Yeah i missed it too somehow.
Excellent episode. It's nice to see Sandy excited about every aspect of the product he is reviewing. Jag definitely knows his stuff.
✌️👍 CAT should invite Sandy's Crew along to a mine demonstration
Living in western Australia I appreciate this being they are digging the hell out of our country for the world to build good stuff. All we do is dig it up, sell it to smart countries then buy it back for many times it's cost.
I am 74, but when I was a kid, my father used to talk about Garwood Boats. They were like Chriscraft boats, but much better and held many speed records. If you can find one, and restore it, it would be very valuable.
Thanks Sandy
Thank you, Sandy!
These are awesome and the largest are used in Northern Alberta and BC, Canada
Very interesting. Always nice to hear a story from Windsor, Ontario. And pictures too. Thanks Sandy. Nice to learn history and about new tech also
Sandvik has been making large electric dump trucks for mining before Caterpillar. They have a 50 and 65 tonne haulers, along with an 18 tonne loader. They have lithium iron phosphate batteries, with automatic battery swapping equipment.
What a great interview. This why I love this channel.
Thank you
awesome - really enjoyed this. Good work. Hope to see team Munro at the UK Fully Charged shows :-)
Many of the Drag Lines that load those trucks have been electric for decades. An automated charging station as they wait to get loaded would be just the thing. Also, I would put transponders on all the vehicles at the mine.
What a coincidence. I was just starting to do some engineering calculations on what an electrified version of a CAT would look like and went with overhead lines only, but having some kind of battery pack and regen means it goes up empty, does regen braking on its way down with payload and may actually save a ton of energy this way if not even gain some.
You kind of have the up empty and loaded down, most pit mines are the other way around
Trucks could also have removable batteries that when low, can be replaced with fully charged battery pack. This is done in China with certain vehicles.
@@williambasinger5859 I was thinking the same thing. The truck is full when they are coming out of the mine and empty when going in. Those trucks are big enough that they would still regen a ton of power even while empty.
I could see the up-empty l, down-loaded scenario when they’re carving off the top of a mountain.
@@kenhenningsen1 maybe not so much if they are mining in a pit but even a pit could it have both up an down on each leg of the trip, go up to get out of the pit and then down to where they start processing the material. Strip mining is an animal of a different color, and all mines are different. The gold and copper pit mines are different than the strip coal mines.
Autonomous mining trucks in Australia at BHP started in June 2022 with a completion date of September 2023 with the completion of the entire fleet of 41 Komatsu 930e dump trucks being converted to automation along with another 180 pieces of mining equipment, front end loaders, water trucks, excavators etc.
At the Pilbara mine in Western Australia, full automation of mining equipment and vehicles at this mine was introduced over 6 years ago.
Rio Tinto has them at west Angela's mine in the pilbra Australia as well
Autonomy is great for job losses. Just wait till everything we do is done by an autonomous machine. Great times.
Yay finally something I know a lot about!!!
Sandy said a couple times to get rid of the cab. Jay had some corner cases they said they needed to keep it. I think an intermediate product step would be to create a "pluggable cab" as there are no mechanical cab controls - all electronic - they could have a portable cab unit that 'plugs' into the body of the truck, (Lego style). CAT could use 1 pluggable cab to be plugged into any truck, in the very rare times that a human piloted cab is needed.
Listen to Sandy - remove the cab or at least make that expensive, underused, cab - pluggable. CAT would $ave million$.
They need the cab to drive the truck though. In the mines the areas that the trucks drive themselves is extremely controlled. Whenever they drive the truck to the shop for maintenance it's someone actually driving the truck. The companies themselves are most likely the ones saying they need the cab to stay.
I was 4 when my Dad died driving one at the Morningstar mine in Nevada. Nice to see autonomy being applied here. 👍
Sandy: "I don't want to say 'eliminate' the driver" 🤣🤣
Such a tech show, but nothing beats driving it and powering it with diesel.
working with Newmont, Barrick, and Coeur in Nevada, I am surprised people didn't know these existed. The trucks are already somewhat guided.
AWESOME!
Nice🎉
Thanks
It never occurred to me to use over head lines to power mining equipment. Electrifying mining is way more doable than I realized.
In the late 1950s, I worked for US Steel at an iron mine in northern Quebec. The minesite was powered by a company-owned hydroelectric dam about 10 miles away. All of the huge 3 cu. yard P&H powershovels ran on electricity delivered by !big! trailing "extension cords".
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my dad who was in the british army in wwii.. he suggested lubbing the tracks.. also the british army started the vw.. production after the war..
Cute baby triple 7. There is a mine up north running fleets of autonomous 797s
All the mines in northern Alberta run them. I like bringing people into our truck shop to look at them if they have never stood next to one. Pictures and video don't give you any sense of scale of how big these trucks are.
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Very inspirational! I cannot wait until you do reviews of autonomous spacecraft designed for mining 😅
Not in your lifetime. Even if you're 6.
I was just going to say something about electric trucks for mining in space....but ya beat me.
Can you imagine sending one of these trucks to another planet for mining? Going to need a real big rocket for that!!!!
Alright, Jag is a Munroe fanboy, wow whoooo. Watches the Munroe LIVE Show😃
My grandfather worked for CAT and is now retired. He is excited for this. If he was younger, he would own a Tesla.
Tell him today he doesn't need too be young to own a Tesla. Tell him to get a base model 3 LFP for commuting and to keep his other car and he will end up loving it
I still find it interesting when people address emissions instead of maintenance savings when looking at going electric. It seems to me that when selling to business, the bottom line means a lot more than emissions.
Nice to see Cat working on this!
They have had them for a while. The issue they have is they run into issues during solar storms for some reason. We've got like 100 of the 797b haul trucks at my work and every so often someone will come on the radio asking if we can see the northern lights when I'm working nights
@@pin65371 It is surprising CAT doesn't shield the electronics and wiring better if solar storms cause problems. This feels like an easy problem to solve.
@@_PatrickO The problem is probably for the satellites.
@@lenuvian A commercial operation should be able to use ground beacons to help with that.
@@pin65371 As I said, I'm glad they are working on it.
Komatsu launched what I believe was the first fully autonomous mega dump truck about 6 years ago which was deployed by Rio Tinto in Western Australia to carry iron ore.
Fun expansion of the topics, although it brought back terrifying memories of "sharing" an open pit mine road with the big brothers of this truck -- turnouts 'r us
Sandy\Munro Live guys, check out stats on container and cargo ships burning bunker fuel. One ULCV emits more CO2 and SOx, etc. than 50,000,000 IC cars per year. More are being built and ~180 are in service among ~90,000 commercial cargo ships burning the same stuff 24/7/365.
They need to drive down the cost of small nuclear. They have had the technology to run military ships off of nuclear for decades. At this point everything should just be standardized to keep development costs down.
@@pin65371 Concur.
No need to read further - just related thoughts gathered and commented for posterity:
At this point in human existence, only one known technology can supply the amount of power required in time to [possibly] save grandchildren from otherwise guaranteed socio-economic implosion: small, mass-producible fission reactors deployed immediately by the 10's of thousands worldwide alongside best-available accessories like waste containment systems, air scrubbers, and desalinators, etc.. Too bad the deadline for that impossible human cooperation was 20-30 years ago.
Every 1.2 months, breeding humans continue to add an entire New York City's worth of new souls to the Gordian knot of simultaneous existence problems. (World population increased [doubled] by 4,000,000,000 between 1975 and present; current NYC population is ~8,800,000; fact check and do the math). Each individual shelter-seeking, food-craving, appliance-wanting, transportation-dependent, co-inhabitant of the earth clambering to somehow earn a competitive living and acquire some form of unaffordable real-estate, adds several tons worth of ingredients to everybody else's collective self-exterminating bomb problem every year over 70-80 year life spans...
Excess infrared-absorbing gasses added to the air by extra humans (CO2, methane, NOx, etc.) cannot and will not break down through favorable natural processes for 200-3,000 years. Current levels of regional weather instability caused by infrared-absorbing gasses are already sufficient to disrupt industrialized food production. (Half of the cattle in the Dakotas wiped out by 'freak' early blizzards on top of hot summers, half of corn crops in Iowa wiped out by 'freak' wind storms, regional bread-basket crops normally hydrated by 6 arterial rivers in the northern hemisphere, damaged by 'freak' drought, Ogallala Aquifer disappearing... etc., etc.; fact check and do the trending)
Methane belches caused by thawing reservoirs above the arctic circle, as well as below the ocean surface, will continue to add more radiation-absorbing gas decades after humans improbably decide to stop burning massive quantities of petrochemicals. The additional methane, 80 times more heat retetaining than CO2, will be accompanied by increasing infrared radiation as the protective albedo of light-reflecting snow disappears to expose dark, infrared radiating mud.
Restoring the air mixture to grandkid-friendly, pre-industrial levels for the sake of alleged civil fairness, if not alleged fundamental morality, requires deploying large-scale air scrubbing machines powered by more than all the energy released by burning all the petrochemicals pumped since at least 1950(?). We'll underestimate roughly 50 years worth of 600,000,000 terajoules for the improbable scrubbers on top of 600,000,000 terajoules needed to sustain current levels of westernized consumption.
Nope.
Population increasing... Worldwide resources decreasing and legally possessed by fewer... Habitats breaking or broken... Forest fires huge and more frequent... Greenwashing normalized according to business ethos... Commitment to burning petrochemicals basically undeterred despite excitement about electric cars and renewables... Weather instability increasing... Industrialized crop production in trouble... International trade and supply-chains breaking or broken... Public education a gutted thing of the distant past... What matters most? Freedom to spread germs in a pandemic, intruding upon and dictating how people must not rub their private parts together, tax breaks for the entitled to make sure the unborn get to pay back their fair share... etc..
Yep. Nope.
Everybody born after 1975 got to inherit ridiculous public debt, neglect, and decline. Following that tradition, it looks like everybody born after today will get to inherit a big chunk of public bankruptcy, trashed environment, famine, and smoking debris sooner than later. On the other hand, ignorance being bliss, the perfect modern solution to any big crisis is to say it doesn't exist with derision, snarly faces, decibels, and pitchforks out... followed by prayer. At least some of us will have some truly bitchin' STEM accomplishments to admire - even as bitchin' artwork is replaced by the bitchin' simulations.
Thank you "Munro" guys
They should just have a cab that you can plug in if you need manual control, better yet, just a device that you can plug in to have remote control over an app. But if they insist on being able to cross autonomous / manual, the removable, plug in cab is the way to go. That way you can purchase as many as you need for the fleet.
That is too complicated to be worth it. An interface mechanism for a removable cab that works robust under the conditions of a mine... Not easy. My idea: Have a minimal cab with a simple seat and a table for a laptop that runs the interface.
Caterpillar's new theme song should be Big Wheels by ELO. Old but still good.
Please don't ever ever get a job in marketing. I don't think they want to depress their customers.
The real savings with autonomy are not only in the accident rate; humans are not consistent at doing repetitive tasks. Driving is repetitive, and with long hours that are contrary to the human brain's relatives, reliability falls. Thus, the advantages of automation state you should automate repetitive tasks and unsafe and hazardous environments. The challenge to automation generally is that people fight to keep their repetitive tasks even though it hurts them.
And yet there is an IPCC study saying exactly why Hydro is not environmentally friendly and why they equate Hydro to be equivalent to burning coal. It is an interesting read, and they have a point, the water, when sitting behind the dam and as it flows into the dam site picks up suspended CO2, and when that water exits, the turbines liberate the CO2. Not to mention the environmental impact of installing a dam and the disruption to wildlife, I believe that the IPCC will, once everyone switches to Hydro, condemn it and force the elimination of all hydro dams. I know there have been various provinces here who want to put in more hydro but have been denied by the federal government. So, the change is coming, and hydro will go the way of coal. I just can not see millions of wind turbines and solar panels supporting a mine. I think that, ultimately, mining and heavy industry will be phased out because it is just too damaging.
Sandy if you ever do a tear down on something like this, I’ll drop my mining job and come work for you.
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Could you explore the Idea of full electrification of Caterpillar equipment? I think that caterpillar is too invested in the hydraulics to consider all the benefits that could be achieved (regenerative return stroke)?
Is that Velodyne Lidar? looks so cool
"Nothing to see here, citizen, move away from the vee-hicle"
man, if the situation is going uphill empty and coming down full...you would probably get all your energy back.
yep, that's what the big Australian miners are trying out right now...watch this space
If you are pulling out of a deep pit, it’ll be the change in potential energy (height working against gravity) and it’s big. As it is for diesel too.
There is a mine in Switzerland that does this. The mine is at the top of the mountain, so the trucks come down full and go up empty. They start the day with enough charge to get to the top of the mountain, then charge going down full. At the end of the day they sell the excess charge to the grid by discharging the battery. In horizontal bore mines with extraction shafts, the tunnels can be downsloped to the shaft at a grade that keeps the trucks charged, then it just takes a bit more electricity to lift the ore up the shaft.
@@GoCoyote One mine. Not going to save the world. It’s almost entirely greenwash. Conversion of ore to metal is biggest CO2 producer, smelting just swaps it, wastes half the coal as uses CO only.
@@iandavies4853
Every ore has different requirements for extracting the minerals/materials, and there is a wide variety in energy costs to do so. Some ores like aluminium use electricity, and the majority of aluminium made in the USA is smelted using renewable electricity. Smelting ores that are not as well suited to use electricity, such as iron and cement manufacturing, are two areas that using hydrogen from renewable energy actually makes sense. Many steps of many types ore refining process are well suited to using electricity from renewables, and many are already doing so, as mines and refineries are taking advantage of the lower cost of renewables.
Even electrifying 1 van is the equivalent pollution of 2 or 3+ cars because commercial vehicles operate for more hours every day.
Caterpillar and ouster lidar to the moon 🌚
Yayy, more jobs that provide self respect going autonomous!!
Don't these Trucks already run on Electric Motors?
I thought they need the Electric motors for traction control and save on break pads while going downhill but the charge is from a diesel engine if I do remember it right.
nice video, rear axle cast in china, i would have requested that be on the other side of the housing! i decided against buying a john deere mower for that very reason.
Interesting point with mine sites and no close diesel fuel. So how does the electric/battery differ in logistics of delivery? Electric infrastructure is expensive, and I don't believe that most mine sites are co-located with hydroelectric power.
Been working with Lidar sensors on professional basis for 3 years and still can't see how this would work for reliable self driving. It does not work in dust, snow, haze, shiny surfaces,... it basically only works in clean air on somewhat mat surfaces or it is either totally blind (shows just a ball of points around the sensor) or shuts off the light sensor because it is blinding itself or gets horrible bad accuracy.
Well come back in good health dear Lars. I cannot vouch for the veracity of the information I read sometime back to the fact that Hydrogen is at least 6 times more expensive to produce than Solar or wind energy, which under this aspect would make Hydrogen cars prohibitively too costly to operate.
It's all about efficiency, so hydrogen is a dead end for transportation. Batteries will continue to get more energy dense, faster to charge, cheaper, and safer.
Need you talk do the same conversation with Komatsu too. I work for a CAT dealer and was 7 years at Komatsu too. I feel the Komatsu is leading this field but there components are to heavy and over engineered causing a higher cost and the machine vs load per kg inches to CAT but the technology is better at Komatsu
Let's face it: It ain't about safety or pollution. Autonomous trucks are just robots that can work 24 hrs/day with no benefits, pay raises, strikes or bathroom/lunch breaks. And, they do exactly as they are told with no lip.
Go Cat 👍
Obviously, torque and acceleration from full stops are serious problems for vehicles like garbage trucks and agricultural machinery, let alone these giant mining and excavating machines. Safety, explosive avoidance; surface or underground accidents, noise and vibration, etc., are other major concerns that could be alleviated by modern electric motors and sensors and degrees of autonomy. OSHA and MSHA and their research centers can play an important role in the transition toward EVs, but there are so many regulatory and legal hoops that are barriers to rapid introduction of (ANY) new technologies which must be certified before use. Also, if you certify and replace, say, an old certified light bulb with a new one, it still sometimes re-opens or opens new ligation for any accidents that may have happened even years ago while using the old one.
I bet "Jag" stand for "Jagath"
Sure it all sounds well and good, but I see no one here recalls the movie "Killdozer", have we learned nothing? I'm joking ... I think, that's a big, big truck.
Komatsu have their one for years and it's much more advanced. no cab , remote control for maintenance operation.
MICHELIN !!! French company! Of course.
They will license Tesla’s software core and make a deal for off planet mining.
Nice dad Sandy. I bet he was a lot like you. Looking at myself (I'm 70) the older you get the more you miss the old folks.
The older you get the younger those "Old Folks" seem plus very often you end up becoming your Dad more than you notice until the day comes when you find yourself saying exactly what he would have said in a given situation.
@@neilfromclearwaterfl81 True. I even hear myself sound like ma, when giving advice to my kids of middle age. And then they put up the same face I did at that age. That face you know, expressing a mix of patience, boredom and goodwill.
Is this vehicle electric? Doesn’t sound like it.
Might be a hybrid. Diesel engine that just runs a generator which run the electric drive motors.
Tuesday FORD had stopped production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup after discovering a potential battery issue
Mining is usually remote, how will they power this kind of ginormous machine with electricity, mobile nuclear reactors!?
It's all about liability. Who is responsible for injury and damage?
The insurers decide. The mining company is not going to do anything.new without agreement from the insurers.
Would be helpful to put Electric Mining Truck in the title, I almost didn't watch this supposed ICE content.
12 hour shifts? How stupid can they be. EVERY labor study in the last hundred plus years has said that when you go from an 8 hour shift to a 12 hour shift, the number of accidents and errors DOUBLES. That's just not profitable.
Trucks or volcanoes which are the bigger belchers, and by how much? Put this into perspective.
Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. That's all human activity but every reduction counts. Volcanic eruptions can have a cooling affect whether it's either from small or large eruptions, volcanic aerosols reflect sunlight back into space, cooling the earth. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora produced enough ash and particles to cancel summer in Europe and North America in 1816.
Ships of all kinds probably do even more enviormental damage. I read somewhere 1 cruise ship on a week long cruise does as much damage as 100,000,000 cars do. 🤔
@@streddaz Total nonsense and propaganda.
@@deadmanwalking6342 well that's coming from the scientific community so if you don't believe that how do you know how much carbon dioxide volcanoes produce? Guess where that data comes from? The same people. You can't pick and choose what science to believe.
@@4literv6 Damage you say.
You won't have job, but you will be safer!
When we've automated everything, they'll still need people to buy things. So, a new economy will have to be thought of.
If you can find someone to do the job .
This is so good, I know to many truck drivers that abuse drugs to keep themselves alert on site.....
and many more take opioids to numb pain from vibration. Driving a mining truck is not a job for human beings, or me (I'm a doll).
Note, introducing music too loud.
Intended. BIG music! Get it?
I wouldn't be surprised if accident rates are lower than the rates of mechanical failure. Heavy equipment literally moves mountains to make civilized life possible for the rest of us. I don't think autonomy in this space would be as world-changing as in general transportation or agriculture.
The actual mined material is a massive polluters
Hydrogen fuel cells are the answer, with hydrogen being purified from methane (and eventually from the sea). It is easy to handle and transport.
It is a matter of efficiency and source. Using methane to make hydrogen, the "well to wheel" efficiency of hydrogen vehicles is ~19%, using renewable electricity to make hydrogen it is ~30%, for EVs charged with electricity produced by coal it is ~50%, for EVs charged by electricity from natural gas (methane) it is ~60%, for EVs charged by renewables it is ~76-90%.
No matter which way you look at it, it is cheaper to just use electricity to run vehicles and just skip hydrogen, and hydrogen made from methane produces more CO2 than just burning the methane. Making hydrogen from methane produces a little more CO2 than burning an equivalent amount of gasoline, but adds extra steps and costs.
Eliminating drivers just result in more people out of work not any safer for the driver who still need a job somewhere and autonomy is not a good thing because a mine is a ever changing environment, verry hard to automate safely. Shure the tec is interesting but automation that removes jobs needs to be taxed much higher to motivate keeping people at work not machines.
Amazing how we went from self-driving cars would be here 10 years ago to being impressed by vehicles in a controlled environment with someone on camera babysitting them.
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New tech is great but people are worse off than ever. We need solutions for all the elimination of our best middle class jobs.
As a truck driver for 45+ years, I think getting rid of the driver is a lousy idea. How is a man supposed to make a living to support his family when ALL companies want to eliminate workers?
buy shares in the company, I guess.
Interesting Video. Can't wait to see how this works out Hauling MEGA TONS of Rock's and such with a Battery Operated 100'200'300'400' TON T R U C K. And, with No Human on Board to be found/Seen anywhere??? Interesting.
Put an RTG into it for power, then put it into a Starship or two, send it to Mars, start mining remotely.
All this talk about automation but no talk about where people are going to work. How are people going to buy these products with no income? UBI ?? There has never been a monetary system not based off productive labor i have my doubts on universal basic income.
You lost me in first minute.
Pollution from mining trucks is side issue, work out how many tonnes per year.
It’s greenwash.
Autonomy in mining is about saving on (very pricey) wages - as it is everywhere.
Mining electrification is all about the dollars. No more.
Tesla is recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system.
On tuesday FORD had stopped production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup after discovering a potential battery issue.
Electrification to solve carbon emissions is a red herring because the roads are made from asphalt, which is a byproduct of oil refining. Horse-drawn wooden carriages on grass roads are carbon negative.
Sandy's dancing around the automation aspect, but it's not necessary. It's okay to make dangerous unhealthy jobs redundant. We just need to also advocate for those who are now making a lot more profit due to decreased overhead due to automation to pay into a social system that then adequately takes care of the people who've been made redundant. I understand the channel isn't political, but it's impossible to avoid the topic when you're talking about automation of work vehicles. The socialist revolution WILL be driven by automation, and whether the capitalist class realizes it or not, they're the ones driving this change.
Mining operations are filthy. I don’t think any camera or thermal cameras can compete for the corrosion. It’s cheaper to hire drivers and pay them a fair wage.
Mining accountants disagree.
Like the accidents caused by tesla software..just recalled..
Who in the hell picks the ridiculous music?! Grow up!
I like the music! 👍
Never!
How bout quantum autonomous mining? in which you use sophisticated quantum hydrogen water electrolyzers to transmutate elements?
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Why don't we just "BEAM" boulders (not the one in Colorado) to the refinery? p.s. I already applied for a patent...