In my mind tractors are just plain dangerous. I can't say I have driven tractors that much but I've put them in ditches and have gotten closer to rollovers on tractors without a ROPS than I like. I've heard a lot of stories about people getting caught up in PTOs and it's famous that a young man was driving down a hill with a haywagon and had the transmission pop out of gear and couldn't get it back in and died when the tractor crashed at the bottom of the hill.

So I wouldn't expect it to be safe around an autonomous tractor and even with an operator I trust I always have an exit plan and know where I'm going to bail if I see the machine going the wrong way.

Overall agri-tech is challenging. Personally I am not so interested in more AI-generated Nobel Prize winners as I am in machines that can pick strawberries, change bedpans and do other things we need.