Driverless Tractors


Technology-Driverless Tractors: Agriculture is said to be the heart and soul of a country, especially for India. But it requires vast amount of time and large number of people. As passion for farming is gradually decreasing in human minds the charge is taken by the technology in the form of Robots. One of such effective mechanism used for farming is Driverless Tractors.
Benefits
  • Driverless tractors are just now seeing the light of usage in India. Mahindra is the first company to launch the first ever Driverless Tractor in the country. The name itself shows its primary significance that, it doesn't requires any man power for driving.
  • As we all know tillage is the primary step of farming and it takes some time and man power, the invention of this autonomous machine has made the process very easy.
  • These tractors use GPS technology to perform other tasks of agriculture apart from digging the land. There autonomous system helps the machine to decide the exact position to operate, required speed to move and keeping away any other obstacles such as stones, animals or even humans coming in their way.
  • With the usage of Driverless tractors high profits are possible with more productivity. Also the risk factors like health hazards for farmers are eradicated.
Drawbacks
  • Think, what happens when the sensors of obstacle detection are failed and there is a human in front of it ? Even though the makers are confident about security, there may be a chance of life threat at that moment.
  • Although it is fully automated without requiring any driver it must have a supervisor to look after, which is a contradiction of its invention.
  • It may be expensive and more power consumption for medium budget farmers, whose income is very much low compared to their productivity.
Availability

Its application is becoming popular in some western countries also in some parts of Australia. Driverless tractors are just arrived in India and yet to reach every corner of farming land.



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