First Cory heads to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to meet with Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) President, Paul Mitchell. Later he checks out the robotaxi from Zoox and talks to Chris Stoffel, Director, Studio Engineering at Zoox. And Finally Sandy talk to Jag Samaraweera, Commercial Consultant for Command for Hauling at CAT and checks out their autonomous mining truck.
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I would say there's got to be a lot of integration with a mining company's systems to enable full autonomy for those haul trucks. The big iron ore miners here in Australia currently remotely pilot those trucks from thousands of kilometres away.
wow, those sales guys talk a lot without saying anything! 🤣blah, blah blah
Love your show.
I would have liked to know if the cars AI is learning the faster route on the track, finding optimum braking points, etc. Maybe interview a team for that.
Subarus on a road course. For starters. Production cars are much cheaper than race cars. Then model S plad.
Zoox vehicle, does this meet NHTSA and IIHS safety standards?
Autonomous is good for all off public roads commercial applications. If they hit each other just repair them. If they get buried dig them out.
No one is mentioning the "fake fans" in the upper deck of the speedway?
I'm looking forward to seeing Munro Live doing a teardown of the truck. They might have to hire a few weightlifters to handle the parts. 🤣🤣
Corey is losing weight because Sandy stopped paying him
I am surprised that the formula cars were not battery powered. They already have Formula E racing.
Love the enthusiasm from all these autonomous enterprises – but sadly, very sadly, the minute Tesla FSD is approved, all these initiatives become redundant.
Autonomous tools don't need cabs or cockpits they only need remote controls. What a waste.
Fully electric mine are the future and it's happening now!
1) all (most?) big trucks have already an electric drive train, which so far is usually still powered by an onboard diesel generator. Too bad Sandy didn't mention this.
2) trolley lines can be combined with existing trucks in order to reduce diesel consumption
3) trolley lines are slow to setup and will only cover stable path ways, usually outside of the pit
4) battery (BEV) trucks will probably use LTO batteries, because of the very high max power output, which is the key performance to get the trucks out of the pit.
5) BEV trucks are about twice (!) as productive than diesel trucks and can move much faster uphill. Thus the mine operator need only half the truck fleet and saves enormous amount of operating costs (because BEV).
6) BEV trucks will be combined with trolley lines and automated charging stations.
7) let me tell you that the mining industry is super excited to move towards a fully electric mine without any fuel consumption. Main motivation is reduced OPEX and green marketing.
Source: my daily work at ABB
In western Australia there are currently 575 autonomous mining trucks operating in 6 iron ore and gold mines as of late 2022 , the largest fleet of autonomous mining trucks operates out of Christmas Creek iron ore mine , operated by the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) which has 74 autonomous trucks alone, the largest autonomous truck fleet in the world, Canada has around 143 autonomous trucks across its mining sector. The first autonomous Caterpillar trucks started running at Newmont's Boddington gold mine in western Australia and is well on its way to become the worlds first autonomous gold mine
Zoox looks cool but if I am going to airport where dose my luggage go.🤔🤔
Great video, Thanks Sandy and the Munro team, you guys are producing some of the Best CES coverage i have seen in years. i saw an article recently where several CAT Electric Dump trucks were delivered to a mine site in WA Australia for testing. Electric is the future!
The company I work for has done contract work for a local Komatsu network on several occasions. Three or so year ago I had a great conversation with one of their guys about their autonomous trucks going into trials in the oil sands in Alberta. There's literally no cab. It was really cool stuff.
Sorry friends who drive truck in Fort Mac.
Here's the documentary on the DARPA challenge refered in the video.
https://youtu.be/tqP2R2sKzLY
Those huge mining trucks as electric is such a big win, full tank after coming back down from unloading.