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Aussie miner turns Ford Ranger into driverless vehicle – NEWS.com.au
Aussie miner turns Ford Ranger into driverless vehicle
An Aussie mining giant has commissioned a new fleet of remote-control utes.Iron ore miner, Fortescue Metals Group, has teamed up with Ford Australia to turn the popular Ford Ranger ute into an autonomous vehicle.
The company will deploy four Ford Rangers that have been retrofitted with driverless car tech.
The utes employ Lidar technology, which operates in the same way as radar but use laser light waves rather than radio waves to sense distances and objects. It is already widely used by the car…
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