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Autonomous Tractor

Topics Covered

  • Autonomous Tractor
  • Challenge Overview

Instructions

The video explains that an autonomous orchard tractor can navigate an orchard without a driver or GPS. It then explains a little about the challenge that ends the Turning section.

Check Your Understanding

  1. Why is it important to be able to drive through an orchard?
    1. To perform specialized tasks on different types of crops
    2. GPS is required while navigating around the orchard
    3. To perform tasks like inspection and spraying which cannot be done as effectively through other means
    4. All of the above
  2. What is the advantage of the Autonomous Tractor over a human driver?
    1. Reduces the need for humans to perform the repetitive task of driving through the orchard over and over
    2. Reduces exposing human to hazard areas while performing inspections
    3. Autonomous Tractor can travel through an area where a human driver may get lost
    4. There is no big advantage

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C. To perform tasks like inspection and spraying which cannot be done as effectively through other means

A. Reduces the need for humans to perform the repetitive task of driving through the orchard over and over

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