Rep. @cathymcmorris: "We are going to move to driverless cars. It is our future, and it may be as big as when we moved from horse and buggy to the first Model T Ford way back when."
Rep. @cathymcmorris: "This is the time, this should be the Congress to strike a deal and move forward on a national framework for autonomous vehicles."
@JoannMuller@cathymcmorris@JohnDeere .@JohnDeere CTO Jahmy Hindman: "Autonomy presents us the opportunity to sort of decouple labor from the machine usage...and to reduce their dependency upon what is becoming an increasingly scarce resource, the labor that they need in order to perform the work that they do."
.@JohnDeere CTO Jahmy Hindman: "I would tell you that the fully autonomous farm is not probably five to 10 years out, but much closer than that."
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