Posted on Jan 31, 2014
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Came across this interesting article from Cnet.com.
Think we are ready for a KITT type vehicle to be driving down the roads of our next combat zone?
Recent tests, says Lockheed Martin, show that fully autonomous convoys can safely navigate road intersections, oncoming traffic, stalled and passing vehicles, and pedestrians. Read this article by Jon...
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I am surprised this has not been done long before with all the robots we have in areas such as EOD, UAVs, and drones.
Driverless vehicles have been used for movies for years so the technology has been there, it should have been tested and used many times during OIF/OEF.
Thanks for sharing.
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SPC Chris Stiles
It is rather complicated to get a truly driverless vehicle to work safely. This especially holds true for working in combat environments and in inhospitable locations. They have been working on the technology for a while now, but it has taken a long time for sensor technology, the control hardware on top of the software to fuse all these things together to create a reliable platform that can successfully do this with the combat demands that will be placed on them. Yes, this would have been great technology to be able to have used in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we didn't have it at the time and it is still a few years from full implementation in the force.
Driverless vehicles have been used for movies for many years, but they are all mostly remote controlled with simple rc controllers rather than ones that are able to be programmed and driven autonomously without a human's input. Hooking up an RC controller and radio to servos mounted on a steering wheel and foot pedals is infinitely easier and cheaper to accomplish than what they are doing to the vehicles in this article. That's why they've been doing that for many years for the movies now.
Driverless vehicles have been used for movies for many years, but they are all mostly remote controlled with simple rc controllers rather than ones that are able to be programmed and driven autonomously without a human's input. Hooking up an RC controller and radio to servos mounted on a steering wheel and foot pedals is infinitely easier and cheaper to accomplish than what they are doing to the vehicles in this article. That's why they've been doing that for many years for the movies now.
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This is outstanding technology and I'm glad to see that the Army plans to use it for convoy duty.
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