Rio Tinto: Autonomous trains now driving 20 per cent of pit-to-port kilometres in Australia

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Rio Tinto has probably been working on autonomous vehicles for longer than Google or Apple

Mining giant Rio Tinto claims that 20 per cent of its pit-to-port train movements in its iron ore mining network in Western Australia are now done by autonomous trains. The technology is being u...

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