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Australian miner Fortescue says 2 driverless trucks involved in low-speed incident

15th February 2019

By: Reuters

  

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MELBOURNE - Australian iron-ore miner Fortescue said on Friday that one of its driverless trucks, travelling at low speed, ran into another that was parked at its remote Western Australian operations in an incident earlier this week.

Noone was hurt or at risk of being injured in the Febuary 11 incident, the miner said in a statement. Fortescue has been retrofitting its extensive fleet of huge mining trucks with autonomous haulage systems (AHS) over the past several years.

"This was not the result of any failure of the autonomous system," Fortescue CEO Elizabeth Gaines said in the statement. The miner is conducting a full investigation into the incident.

"On Monday, 11 February an AHS truck made contact with a parked AHS truck at slow speed," the statement said, without disclosing the speed at which the moving vehicle was travelling or details of any damage to the trucks. "No manned vehicles or people were involved."

Fortescue said its AHS trucks have safely travelled more than 24.7 million kilometres since 2012.

Edited by Reuters

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