Robocones

Anonymous Meoward writes "Researchers at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have come up with robotic traffic barrels ('bollards', for our British readers) that can be repositioned by remote control, thus minimizing a road worker's time in harm's way. Apparently, the barrels can be grouped and positioned by an autonomous 'shepherd' unit, that is also smart enough to also remove an errant barrel from its herd. The barrels themselves are about as intelligent as.. well, orange barrels. Okay, let's cue the more obvious jokes..." Reader zombieflesheater submitted this previous attempt to mobilize road furniture.

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Question still isn't answered.

[jmichaelg]

The question was "how many workers are injured deploying/retrieving hazard markers?" Your answer starts out telling us who got killed by occupational title. Then you tell us what kind of machine did the killing. Then in bold letters you tell us that in 318 out of 465 equipmnet fatalities, a worker on foot was struck by a vehicle. Hmm, what was the worker doing? Was he deploying a hazard cone, standing around or gasp, working?

Your post is an example of flooding someone with unrelated statistics and pretending that it answers the original question.