Just a notice to the other people who do want to use the crawler with a grid: Optera's Vehicle Grid will add a grid of considerable size. Also, since versions 0.1.22 (Factorio 0.17) and 0.2.2 (Factorio 0.18), Autodrive will add a minimum grid to the crawler so all of the Autodrive sensors (but nothing else!) can be used with it.