How Do 80,000 "Lipsticks" Help The Largest Port In Europe Run On Automation? | Richard Hammond's Big

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Published 2020-06-23

The Port Of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and deals with thousands of containers a day, requiring a delicate ballet between cranes and trucks to complex for human operators. So how do they get these vehicles to drive themselves around the port?

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All Comments (21)

@Henben__ 4 years ago

Now let's see how fast the ships go around our track
@Ashfielder 4 years ago

“It’s quite weird to think that we are the only two squidgy human beings in all this.” sad cameraman noises
@Iroh_158 4 years ago

Top Gear and The Grand Tour are fun and all But Hammond sounds so excited narrating and showing these documemtaries. It's like he's made for this
@psych3009 4 years ago

i thought he was gonna talk about how lipsticks sold well LOL
@Kj_Gamer2614 4 years ago

I mean an extension to Holland. Half of my country is extended or reclaimed land
@casey6556 3 years ago

And now to drive this 17 tonne remote-controlled car… he’s not the Stig, but he is the Stig’s high visibility cousin!
@rjweiss1 4 years ago

Crazy to think what ships were 300 years ago to what they are now.
@nooodles1239 4 years ago

he just delayed 100k shipments bc he wanted to play with the robot
@anshumanpratyush305 4 years ago

I just clicked cuz i thought it was a real lipstick.
@plushtank4280 3 years ago

“We could run ourselves over.” Softly “Don’t.”
@emin4704 4 years ago

My brother works here as well, also been there myself being from Rotterdam lol. It's quite an unique experience just seeing massive those ships are in person. A video really can't depict it well enough.
@nexien8114 4 years ago

0:01: the global economy just keeps growing 2020: lol no
@davedavey8515 4 years ago

Who else gets pumped when these come out
@polarbog5659 3 years ago

I've been getting so many container ship recommendations every since the uez canal incident
@Free_Krazy 4 years ago

I think i figured out why Richard Hammond is so good at this, besides it being Hamond, he always presents everything as if he is also learning about it for the first time, whether he does or not idk, but honestly sometimes i feel like he doesn't actually read up on the answers hes gonna get for his questions lol
@demonproser6791 4 years ago

And then there’s me thinking about how you rob a port in a gta mission
@MultiGamerClub 4 years ago

I recently saw a video of this same ship of maersk from 2018 that richard voiced a couple of days ago, good to see something come out so close today.
@nickolask8086 4 years ago

Great series
@saadbinarshad9200 4 years ago

Please make a movie where someone hacks all this.
@RichardCox0 4 years ago

I love Richard Hammond’s Big~