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In 1993 Rotterdam had it's first automated container terminal with driverless AGVs. If someone walked onto the road all alarms went off and everything shut down. Not something you will do twice.

A few months a go a dutch train hit a truck that had been stuck on a crossing trying to turn for something like 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuyLs_0C0I

This is how technology is "progressing".

With a bunch of sensors, some cameras, some relays, a simple computer and a bit of software you can make fork lifts work. We are even spoiled with AI now, should be easy to spot safety violations as false positives are not an issue.



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