We drive a John Deere tractor 1,288 miles away at CES 2024

At CES 2024, John Deere showed off its new autonomous tractor technology, which allows farmers to till their fields without being in the cab or paying much attention at all, really. By utilizing an app, the farmer can stop and start the tractor, respond to potential hindrances ahead, adjust speeds and tilling implement depths, and of course, which field the tractor is autonomously tilling. In this video, Autoblog senior editor James Riswick operates a tractor 1,288 miles away in Austin, Texas. John Deere’s autonomous tractor technology is currently undergoing beta testing with actual owners/farmers, collecting data necessary to eliminate as many false positives (i.e. the tractor coming to an automatic stop despite not needing to and wasting the farmer’s time) before it hits the market fully within a couple of years.