Little by little, autonomous driving is reaching all sectors of the market and, as expected, the world of agriculture, perhaps one of the most ideal in principle, was not going to run out of creations like the one I want to present to you today, a eye-catching autonomous tractor created by the company Case IH whose skills are being presented to the public within the event Farm Progress Show which is taking place in the city of Boone, Iwa (United States).
According to the data published by Case IH, what you have on the screen is what they themselves have baptized as'Autonomous Concept Vehicle'or ACV, an impressive robotic tractor that can be remotely operated by means of a tablet PC. As you can see, aesthetically it differs from a conventional model in details such as removal of the driver's cab Because it has been replaced by a complex system made up of radars, GPS, cameras and sensors capable of detecting obstacles.
Case IH ACV, an impressive autonomous tractor controlled from a tablet PC
As for the autonomous function of this peculiar tractor, apparently and from the tablet PC we have talked about previously, any user could define routes and schedule tasks at certain hours that will make the tractor able to work completely autonomously both day and night. In addition to scheduling tasks, a single person can control multiple tractors y know the location at all times of any unit. There is also an app for smartphones through which you can only monitor the status of scheduled tasks.
Mechanically this beast has been equipped with a 420 horses that allows you to reach a maximum speed of 50 km/h. Despite the benefits that a vehicle of this type and characteristics can offer, at the moment its creators are trying to push for regulation that allows to operate this type of tractors since, at the moment, not having a driver makes it impossible for it to circulate on public roads, an issue for which, still, it will take a long time for it to be legalized.