California allows Robots taxis on crowded city streets, but they are banned on empty farm fields. It should be the other way around.
Some farms have a shortage of human workers, so they need more robots. Crops are being left on the fields due a labor shortage. Farm robots are not taking jobs from human workers and California bans them.
Robot taxis are taking job from human workers and California allows them.
"Crops are being left on the fields due a labor shortage"
I suppose the UFW is behind the ban in California.
I've seen videos of such things, and they are really amazing. A friend has autosteer on his tractor, and when he plants corn, after he gets the tractor turned around at the end of the field he hits the button and it takes over, keeping everything lined up and plants perfectly straight rows. All he has to do is turn it around at the end of the rows and get it close to being lined up and it takes over. Newer ones will even turn it around for you. It is amazing stuff.
Of course all this stuff is amazingly expensive and requires techs to come out and fix things. It just means the big will get bigger and the rest will do something else.
From AI assist:
"In 1825, approximately 70% of the U.S. population was involved in farming. By 1925, this percentage had decreased to about 30%, and as of 2025, it is estimated to be around 1-2% of the population.
ThoughtCo Cornell University Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies."
I'm dead in the water right now because the corn planter that was planting my corn has a bad electric motor driving the 7th row unit. Waiting since late Tuesday for that to get fixed. We should get going Tomorrow. My planter was ground driven. I would just go in the shop and make a new chain. That's progress.
