TECHNOLOGY

Implications of an autonomous truck incident

A LIKELY world-first case of an autonomous truck driving into an excavator has regulators looking at the safety implications.

 A loss of communications on an autonomous circuit led to the autonomous truck hitting the manually-operated excavator.

A loss of communications on an autonomous circuit led to the autonomous truck hitting the manually-operated excavator.

A loss of communications on an autonomous circuit at a BHP Mitsubishi Alliance's Goonyella open pit coal mine in Queensland in August last year led to the autonomous truck hitting the manually-operated...

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