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Why are remote controls not used more

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-04-24] [Hit: ]
remote weather stations/sensors just a few random examples!But back to the household scene: would you buy a remote controlled lawnmower? I wouldnt. Why would anyone sell it if no one would buy it?......
Like in lawnmowers, tractors, parking cars and others
It seems they are only used in TVs, toys and parked cars (except maybe some industrial applications)
Why is this?

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While there are devices for industrial, military, and rescue work that involve remote control to reduce risk to operators, they are generally very expensive because remote control does not mean standing to one side and watching what happens and reacting to it - like a model air plane - but being in a bunker, tank, distant airplane or around the the corner from a possible bomb. This means the device must have optical and sound sensors, send the information back to the operator who must have a functional display station, and then must be able to transmit detailed commands. Further, any heavy or valuable equipment must have built in control functions to not only stop in case of loss of signal or messed up signals. Also heavy devices must have built in sensing and reaction to things that might be dangerous - we don't want a one tonne rescue vehicle running over bodies on the ground or pitching forward into a hole in the ground the operator missed.
Hard to maneuver is exactly that - how much experience to you have taking a school bus (or tank) into a crowded parking lot?
And you might buy a high quality (sophisticated controls) remote tank or other vehicle for a hundred dollars or so and try controlling it while you are looking at it - maneuvering among a bunch of tennis balls or plastic cups representing parked cars or buildings

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Remote control goes much furthur than just the consumer electronics market!

Power companies remotely control their switchgear, telecom networks are largely remotely automated, many industrial processes and machines are in fact remotely controlled, traffic lights, satellites, unmanned aircraft, submarines, remote weather stations/sensors just a few random examples!

But back to the household scene: would you buy a remote controlled lawnmower? I wouldnt. Why would anyone sell it if no one would buy it?
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