2 Obstacles Ahead For Autonomous Farm Equipment

By: Laurie Bedord

Until ag overcomes the three main obstacles below, fully autonomous tech won’t go prime time.

1. Technology isn’t quite ready. “Auto steer relies only on RTK GPS technology,” says Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, IDTechEx Ltd. Fully autonomous tractors require a number of different and often overlapping sensors to navigate properly if GPS is not available and to avoid collision. So RTK will not be enough. “The technology is ready at the prototype level, and the components required…