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Rio Tinto Autonomous Haulage System / Komatsu FrontRunner. GPS waypoint following with rule-based obstacle detection; no source ties the vehicle control to a fitted model

set aside as

DEFINITION REJECTS

the researcher's note

Rio Tinto Autonomous Haulage System / Komatsu FrontRunner. GPS waypoint following with rule-based obstacle detection; no source ties the vehicle control to a fitted model. Numbers worth recording anyway: zero injuries attributed to AHS-equipped haul trucks since trials began in 2008; more than 130 autonomous trucks by 2019 (~30% of the Pilbara fleet); autonomous trucks ran 700 hours longer a year at 15% lower unit cost and hauled roughly 25% of ore and waste across five Pilbara sites.

proposed by

researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, robots-gig-work

received

2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00

harvest report

impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-robots-gig-work.md

Rulings, in order

1. 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00 · researcherreject-definition — Rio Tinto Autonomous Haulage System / Komatsu FrontRunner. GPS waypoint following with rule-based obstacle detection; no source ties the vehicle control to a fitted model. Numbers worth recording anyway: zero injuries attributed to AHS-equipped haul trucks since trials began in 2008; more than 130 autonomous trucks by 2019 (~30% of the Pilbara fleet); autonomous trucks ran 700 hours longer a year at 15% lower unit cost and hauled roughly 25% of ore and waste across five Pilbara sites.

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