Source: Laurie Bedord,  AGRICULTURE.COM, 12/4/17


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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.

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