{"id":133630,"date":"2022-01-05T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:22:59","slug":"john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone","title":{"rendered":"John Deere breaks new ground with self-driving tractors you can control from a phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/john-deere-breaks-new-ground-with-self-driving-tractors-you-can-control-from-a-phone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tractors that steer themselves are nothing new to Minnesota farmer Doug Nimz. But then four years ago, John Deere brought a whole new kind of machine to his 2,000-acre corn and soybean farm. That tractor could not only steer itself but also didn\u2019t even need a farmer in the cab to operate it.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the 44,000-pound machine was John Deere\u2019s first fully autonomous tractor, and Nimz was one of the first people in the world to try it out. His farm served as a testing ground that allowed John Deere\u2019s engineers to make continuous changes and improvements over the last few years. On Tuesday, the rest of the world got to see the finished tractor as the centerpiece of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ces\/\">CES 2022<\/a> press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a while to get comfortable because \u2026 first of all, you\u2019re just kind of amazed just watching it,\u201d said Nimz, who on a windy October afternoon described himself as \u201cvery, very interested\u201d but also a \u201clittle suspicious\u201d of autonomous technology before using John Deere\u2019s machine on his farm. \u201cWhen I actually saw it drive \u2026 I said, \u2018Well, goll, this is really going to happen. This really will work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tractors that steer themselves are nothing new to Minnesota farmer Doug Nimz. But then four years ago, John Deere brought a whole new kind of machine to his 2,000-acre corn and soybean farm. That tractor could not only steer itself but also didn\u2019t even need a farmer in the cab to operate it. It turns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1512,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}