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That's where the large mining conglomerate Rio Tinto has rolled out fleets of all-driverless trucks at two iron ore mines, according to a report by Jamie Smyth at the Financial Times.
Not only does this reduce the total number of humans who are needed to run the trucking operation, but it eliminates the need to employ those humans in the remote and desolate mining country.
The big difference is that the mine setting offers a huge advantage that most companies can't match - there are no human drivers on the road. As David Roberts has written, one of the biggest technical challenges for making a general purpose autonomous vehicle is that it would have to deal with all those crazy human beings.
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