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by RGamma 134 days ago
Vaguely reminds me of a phenomenon in farming an acquaintance recently told me. Apparently automation is now so great (if you can afford it), that operators only need to sit in their tractors and let the machine do the rest. You're effectively a weight for the seat contact switch.
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That works until something goes wrong.

Same as "self-driving cars", the automated farm machinery can't cope with any sort of change in its environment.