Tractor safety progress
The tractor Safety Pilot, it is claimed, could have prevented more than half the accidents involving farm equipment in Britain during a year. The unit is based on a minicomputer which is bolted to the tractor. This is linked to sensors on the power take-off shaft, the throttle linkage brakes, the hydraulics and the driver’s seat. A disc brake is fitted on the pto shaft. The computer —• which has silicon chip circuitry —• intervenes only if it senses something is wrong. If the driver leaves the seat without first disengaging the pto, for example, the pto brake is applied and the road wheel brakes engaged. A siren also sounds. Machinery that carries on-; board operators ; — potato harvesters. for example — can be fitted with press buttons so that the tractor driver can be warned when something is amiss.
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Press, 27 February 1981, Page 14
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