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TECHNO TRUCKS * Australia: Rio Tint's self-driving trucks
* New South Wales - Forget self-driving Google cars, Australia has self-driving trucks
Sydney,NSW,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Matthew Hall -October 20, 2014: -- Forget about self-driving Google cars. Australia already has automated giant trucks driving around the outback of Western Australia, perhaps the exact aesthetic and ideological opposite of the small Toyota Prius used by Google in test drives... Mining company Rio Tinto uses huge self-automated trucks on mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia that are programmed to drive themselves and navigate mine roads and intersections using sensors, GPS, and radar guidance systems. The trucks self-drive but are overseen by a controller in Perth, 1800 kilometres away... "The biggest machine we have is equivalent to 107 737 jets by weight," said John McGagh, Rio Tinto's head of innovation... Since Rio Tinto's truck trials began in 2008, the driverless vehicles have clocked up more than 1 million kilometres in distance and carried more than 100 million tonnes of material... Emilie Ditton, head of Asia Pacific insights and worldwide mining, at analyst and research company IDC, said the mining industry's embrace of cutting-edge technology was not a novelty, but about the bottom line... "Truck drivers were paid incredibly insane amounts and it was difficult to get people to run those trucks," Ms Ditton said, "The other motivators are operational consistency. Unmanned trucks are about having predictable operational outcome" ... Mr McGagh said the mining industry's use of connectivity could be used to benefit broader society... "It is incredible data and we didn't even know it was called the Internet of Things when we started doing this," he said... "If I am taking the sensor data off my trucks and tying it into coordinates with great precision, and from that I understand the quality of the roads, then why can't you do that with the cars that are driving around [the city]? Combine that data with weather data and you have a better plan for cities" ...
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