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Rio-Tinto Deploys Driverless Trucks

Six months ago we posted that Rio Tinto was planning to introduce 150 centrally controlled driverless trucks by 2015. Yesterday they put out a press release (HT: ThomLandon) celebrating that they now have 10 trucks beginning to transport iron ore.

On a side note, in a departure from the term ‘driverless trucks’ they have dubbed the technology as an Autonomous Haulage System (AHS).

 

http://www.komatsu.com.au

 

Rio Tinto Expands Use Of Driverless Trucks

For a good while now Australian mining company Rio Tinto has been using a fleet of 5 930E driverless trucks from Komatsu limited in its mining operations with plans to expand to 10 this year. (HT: Bradley Keyes and Paul S. Grad)

However, Rio Tinto has massively upped their order to 150 driverless trucks. The order is expected to be completed by the “end of 2015″.

This is a very exciting piece of news for driverless car enthusiasts (even though the trucks are centrally controlled). The mining industry is very prominent in the Australian economic discussion, I expect over time there will be a number of positive news stories about these trucks which will help introduce the public to the idea of driverless cars in general.

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