Tampere, Finland – often referred to as the "Manchester of the North" and aptly nicknamed "Manse" – is a centre for research into the automation of off-road mobile machinery. This research is being conducted at the University of Tampere in close collaboration with the R&D departments of local machinery manufactur-ers. There, for the past four years, Marea de Koning, has been conducting re-search into the safety of highly automated off-road mobile machinery. In this article, Marea provides a summary of her research, where it started and ended.