[LINK] Future of farming: Driverless tractors, ag robots

[David Boxall]

That's one mean-looking tractor!
<http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/16/future-of-farming-driverless-tractors-ag-robots.html>
> The autonomous driving trend isn't limited to large farm machinery. 
> There's also interest in smaller tractors and ag robots, and some see 
> them working in groups of five or more in a swarm-like action.

Of course, all that machinery will produce and consume vast amounts of 
data, all of which will need low-latency telecommunications. The 
communication may be wireless, but it will need ubiquitous fibre for 
backhaul. Our politicians really should have extracted their digits a 
decade or so ago and begun aggressively rolling out fibre.

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