Each snowplow is 18 feet (5.5 meters) wide by 66 feet (20 meters) long and can plow an 86-acre (350,000-square-meter) area in an hour. Moving in sync, they can be remotely deployed from an onsite storage facility and follow a pre-programmed route. For safety reasons, a human operator can monitor the fleet and take over the controls if necessary.
“Every minute a plane stands still is precious. We see great potential for gains in accessibility, but also for the environment and safety because the machine is self-driven,” said Hans Peter Havdal from Semcon, the Swedish technology firm that is backing the project, on the company’s website.
