How the Fully Autonomous Mobilator Moves & Works on the Disney Adventure
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Technically, it's a really interesting and complex bit of machinery that we have not used before.
And when we have something that is completely autonomous and is not connected to a track, that adds another level of risk that we have to mitigate.
So, those cameras, which we thought would be a driving force in how it knows where it is, turned into be really a backup, a way to safely ensure that we are in the proper position.
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