Onslow Iron Flythrough update 

Just a cracking good idea. Innovation plus

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.