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250 separating people and machinery but is limited from the productivity point of view because of the way the solutions were built . The OEMs started that 12 years ago but have not pivoted the technology to the level of smart road autonomy , where we now have cars that can localise , have good perception , can communicate with other vehicles and fixed infrastructure .”
If that level of autonomy could be applied to how mining methodology is conceived you could have the autonomous trucks talking to each other so that they can start to execute a mining mission and manage changes as circumstances change , she predicts . “ There ’ s no point in having trucks queueing at a broken-down shovel , but they could manage that change themselves !” For example they also could talk to the water truck . Technology exists on the trucks to tell them about dust and road conditions so they could tell the water trucks when to water bringing savings in fuel and avoiding under- and over-watering .
They are looking at the autonomy solutions being developed for road-going
JUNE 2020