According to Slash Gear, John Deere hasn’t made any recent announcements about building trucks or street-legal cars. For the time being, John Deere is sticking to what it knows. It will continue to build tractors, lawnmowers, and its other usual machines.
After years of complaints about “unlawful” repairability policies, the FTC is suing tractor manufacturer Deere & Company. Repairability advocates are calling it a milestone for consumer rights.
A trio of John Deere models sold for notable prices this past week in Illinois and Missouri on the used equipment auction circuit.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois and Minnesota Attorneys General announced a lawsuit against agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere over its practices that have allegedly increased equipment repair costs for farmers and deprived them of the ability to make timely repairs on critical farming equipment.
Advocates for farmers say equipment repair delays could be costly for farmers with seeding and harvesting deadlines. The company called the suit "baseless."
As driverless cars are transport millions of people, riders probably don't realize that the food they eat may have benefitted from autonomous vehicles as well!
Citing a lack of skilled labor across the agricultural, construction and commercial landscaping sectors, John Deere recently unveiled four new autonomous machines for 2025.
John Deere is keeping the repair costs of agricultural machinery unfairly high, says the FTC. It requires the manufacturer to provide software tools.