While Sandy was at CES he talked to Jag Samaraweera, Commercial Consultant for Command for Hauling at CAT and checks out their autonomous mining truck!
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Been working with Lidar sensors on professional basis for 3 years and still can't see how this would work for reliable self driving. It does not work in dust, snow, haze, shiny surfaces,… it basically only works in clean air on somewhat mat surfaces or it is either totally blind (shows just a ball of points around the sensor) or shuts off the light sensor because it is blinding itself or gets horrible bad accuracy.
Put an RTG into it for power, then put it into a Starship or two, send it to Mars, start mining remotely.
Caterpillar's new theme song should be Big Wheels by ELO. Old but still good.
I am 74, but when I was a kid, my father used to talk about Garwood Boats. They were like Chriscraft boats, but much better and held many speed records. If you can find one, and restore it, it would be very valuable.
Let's face it: It ain't about safety or pollution. Autonomous trucks are just robots that can work 24 hrs/day with no benefits, pay raises, strikes or bathroom/lunch breaks. And, they do exactly as they are told with no lip.
✌️👍 CAT should invite Sandy's Crew along to a mine demonstration
What a great video! So cool to see Sandy and Jag explain and showcase this stuff. Always fun to see what is next!?
Fun expansion of the topics, although it brought back terrifying memories of "sharing" an open pit mine road with the big brothers of this truck — turnouts 'r us
It's comparable to the cigarette companies claiming they're good for you once they had added a new "advanced" filter.
STEEL&TYRES!
STEEL&TYRES!
….So what advantages will these electric, automated rigs provide?
Answer: more productivity!
= more STEEL&TYRES
= more STEEL&TYRES
And you're all gonna be telling us that exhaust pollution is worse than steel and tyres. Right!
You keep burying them tyres and using coal to make that steel, whilst you pay NO TAX, and we subsidise your infrastructure. To process OUR resources!
PUT IN AN HONEST CIRCULAR ECONOMY, REDUCE YOUR FILTHY FOOTPRINT, AND STOP LYING TO EVERYONE!
Mining operations are filthy. I don’t think any camera or thermal cameras can compete for the corrosion. It’s cheaper to hire drivers and pay them a fair wage.
Is this vehicle electric? Doesn’t sound like it.
I bet "Jag" stand for "Jagath"
Yayy, more jobs that provide self respect going autonomous!!
I'm not going to champion long-hour, repetitive, boring jobs. With the coming autonomous revolution, I do wonder though what the displaced are going to be doing. "Learn to code."? I think not. And remember, coding will also be AI eventually.
My fear is that many will be doing even more drugs and alcohol, or some other self-destructiveness common to humans with nothing constructive to do.
Tesla is recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system.
On tuesday FORD had stopped production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup after discovering a potential battery issue.
Hydrogen fuel cells are the answer, with hydrogen being purified from methane (and eventually from the sea). It is easy to handle and transport.
You lost me in first minute.
Pollution from mining trucks is side issue, work out how many tonnes per year.
It’s greenwash.
Autonomy in mining is about saving on (very pricey) wages – as it is everywhere.
Mining electrification is all about the dollars. No more.
AWESOME!
I work in The Oilsands and have noted routine loads of 500 tons all in. Think on how 12 hour days affect a driver especially if they're working 12 days on and two off. It can be minus -40 or plus 40'C. Add a rough terrain as well as rain, snow, dust, or whatever you can think of. It's a tough demanding job which I'm happy to say I don't do. If I did, I'd be finding my way into the control tower. I've seen the future and it's on Munroe Live.
So your still promoting Killing good paying jobs in-exchange of some sort of marginal increase in safety. Hmm? Getting the Dump-trucks electrified I'm all for or use hydrogen fuel cell
Many of the Drag Lines that load those trucks have been electric for decades. An automated charging station as they wait to get loaded would be just the thing. Also, I would put transponders on all the vehicles at the mine.
awesome – really enjoyed this. Good work. Hope to see team Munro at the UK Fully Charged shows 🙂
Trucks or volcanoes which are the bigger belchers, and by how much? Put this into perspective.
They rarely mine pure resources, and separate from the raw hauled material….You know all of these elements are made in stars, we can recreate this process with fission fusion reactors….Pretty soon we'll just manufacture the elements we desire or require….You can run a big material reactor today just off a few hundred acreage of solar
"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain." –Anonymous
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As a truck driver for 45+ years, I think getting rid of the driver is a lousy idea. How is a man supposed to make a living to support his family when ALL companies want to eliminate workers?
Excellent episode. It's nice to see Sandy excited about every aspect of the product he is reviewing. Jag definitely knows his stuff.
Obviously, torque and acceleration from full stops are serious problems for vehicles like garbage trucks and agricultural machinery, let alone these giant mining and excavating machines. Safety, explosive avoidance; surface or underground accidents, noise and vibration, etc., are other major concerns that could be alleviated by modern electric motors and sensors and degrees of autonomy. OSHA and MSHA and their research centers can play an important role in the transition toward EVs, but there are so many regulatory and legal hoops that are barriers to rapid introduction of (ANY) new technologies which must be certified before use. Also, if you certify and replace, say, an old certified light bulb with a new one, it still sometimes re-opens or opens new ligation for any accidents that may have happened even years ago while using the old one.
Nice dad Sandy. I bet he was a lot like you. Looking at myself (I'm 70) the older you get the more you miss the old folks.
The actual mined material is a massive polluters
Like the accidents caused by tesla software..just recalled..
They will license Tesla’s software core and make a deal for off planet mining.
Even electrifying 1 van is the equivalent pollution of 2 or 3+ cars because commercial vehicles operate for more hours every day.
Would be helpful to put Electric Mining Truck in the title, I almost didn't watch this supposed ICE content.
Eliminating drivers just result in more people out of work not any safer for the driver who still need a job somewhere and autonomy is not a good thing because a mine is a ever changing environment, verry hard to automate safely. Shure the tec is interesting but automation that removes jobs needs to be taxed much higher to motivate keeping people at work not machines.
Spot on Sandy, electrification of commercial and mining vehicles is a huge sector that most people don't consider when discussing EVs