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Cat had autonomous haul trucks at tanaja hills in the 90s but it was to expensive and took a lot of man hours to fix when broke was what I was told at the time Really on paper i really want autonomous it would theoretically be great but i dont think the Roi is going to be as good as predicted and I bet the overhead for it is ridiculous so in reality the only thing that will realistically bring in autonomous is a labor crunch much greater than what were in witch is a compounded problem cause there is no way to automate pipe installation or concrete placement meaning that operators and equipment will be the least worry