New word, from the paper.

Half of [John] Deere's [Inc.] salaried employees are engineers, but it needs hundreds more who know about satellite guidance, artificial intelligence, telematics and other leading-edge processes.

What is telematics? It's a new one to me.

Maybe telematics is when the departing former lover sends a John Deere letter instead of a Dear John letter ..... ???

OneLook yields 4 hits, including

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/telematics?view=uk

Shu, I surely haven't seen it used.

On the other hand, I see that there are more than 10,000,000 Google sites with it.