> These are already used in commercial landscape setting and barely 2 feet tall.
Can they mow a 1,000 acres and get through ruts from feral hogs and everything else? If so, then that's awesome (i really don't know) but you have to think of the scale.
I mean they are used on golf courses which are quite large acreages. I don't see why not. What makes the tractor manage those conditions is not really it being a sensitive instrument, but being a sort of crude and heavy dgaf machine. You can certainly make that in a slimmer package than one that needs the farmer to sit up high and has had the same "bodyplan" for what 150 years maybe, just because that's how its always been done not for any other reason, and no real pressure until now to actually constrain the vertical space of the tractor.
Fair points, autonomous mowers on a golf course make a lot of sense to me too. I’m not a farmer but I believe some of the bigger equipment like combines are mostly on autopilot but still have a human at the helm. Maybe it’s not a huge leap to get the human out of the machine… idk
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