Monday, October 1, 2012

Driverless Trucks

Rio Tinto PLC, the world’s second largest iron ore miner, has announced their plan to drastically boost the number of driverless trucks in their company.  This will bring the number of trucks to 150 within the next four years.  The trucks are built buy Komatsu Limited and will allow material to be moved more efficiently and safely.  The trucks will be controlled remotely from Rio's operations headquarters.
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  1. UnknownDecember 4, 2012 at 11:33 AM

    That is really crazy. Sounds like the job to have.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2013 at 12:05 AM

    Mining uses an heavy haul trail if they need to remove those rocks that was place inside the cave. Then if there are a lot of rocks that are on a single place heavy vehicle will now do its part to remove all of them.

    Heavy Hauling

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