Oceaneering leases the machines to oil companies, including BP, but sends its own crew to drive the complicated robots from boats on the surface of the water.

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To get there, you take a drive-on ferry, which crosses an absurdly narrow channel of water and seems to arrive before it has even set sail.

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One could simply drive up to and into a body of water and keep on going, thanks to dual outboard propellers and a (mostly) watertight body.

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The previous version required a farmer to develop a water application map on a computer, upload that map to a thumb drive, and transfer it to the irrigation controller.

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Yes, one very short stretch (no more than a few hundred feet) of Riverside Drive was covered in standing water and closed to traffic, though an SUV could have still driven through it on the day the Mississippi was at its highest.

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For we rather like being able to drive places, cook food, heat water and survive a Mid-West winter without having to melt the ice on the pitcher each morning.

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