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and next to nothing is being spent for mass transit or planning for strategic evacuations. all's well in fantasy valley.
I'm sure at some point in the future these machines will be fully automated. If the technology already exists to control the blade settings, all you're really paying the workers to do is push the gas pedal -- how hard would it be to automate that?
FYI -- The machine control systems pictured in the photos are from Trimble, the leading supplier of this kind of technology. The technology is getting sophisticated, but the machine operator still needs to steer and verify that everything is being completed accurately.
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