Onslow Iron Flythrough update

Mineral Resources transformational Onslow Iron project will unlock billions of stranded iron ore from the west Pilbara region, using world-first autonomous road trains, industry leading dust free transport and resort-style workforce accommodation.

[@Tellemjustkanga]

Just a cracking good idea. Innovation plus

[@JamieSteam]

How many barges to fill one ship? Amazing technology, thankyou!

[@MineralResourcesLimited]

watch more here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6Skd2p3hJqLf6c

[@henkmeerdink936]

Very impressive. But a few questions spring to mind. How do the autonomous trucks monitor external things like for example the tyres? What happens if they blow a tyre? Transhipping the ore to a bigger vessel in deeper water is fine in principal, but what happens when the weather "freshens"? What waves can they deal with? I drive a modern truck (DAF XF106), and occassionally have driven Mercedes and Scanias, with a host of "driver assist features", which are essentialy those features that will allow a truck to drive autonomously, if they were "in charge" of the vehicle. The monitors and sensors of these regularly fail in either poor weather, or just for no reason. None of those stop me from driving the truck, because they are not in control of the truck, and all the basic systems (brakes etc) are still working as normal. But if the truck was autonomous, a simple sensor or camera fail would stop the vehicle. This, as other such projects, is reliant on a closed area to function. Autonomous vehicles can not cope with the random actions of non autonomous vehicles, pedestrians, or animals.

[@anywhereroam9698]

They have a private haul road.

[@rogersliu1200]

Autonomous cars are more complicated than dump trucks in a controlled environment. It is well developed and plenty of solutions on the market already. " Autonomous vehicles can not cope with the random actions of nonautonomous vehicles, pedestrians, or animals." that's far from the truth. A similar system was already trialing in China with a shits amount of unpredictable things on the public road. Just one of the simple job gets replaced by AI and robotic, don't get too carried away.

[@richardbludworth618]

Taisei Articouple ATB systems can normally operate in unlimited sea states, however most vessel to vessel lightering systems are restricted to a few meters of seas while on yokahoma rubber fenders.