Army demonstrates driverless trucks

[Bekeart]

Army demonstrates driverless trucks



The Army unveiled new automated vehicle technology this week

that could be deployed before self-driving cars hit city streets.

Why it matters: More than half of all battlefield casualties occur when soldiers are delivering fuel,
food or other supplies in combat zones. AVs could reduce that risk.

What's new: This week at Texas' Fort Bliss, the Army demonstrated the first 10 driverless trucks
it is developing for convoys, one of several robot-vehicle projects underway.

The leader-follower platoons would have a pair of drivers in the first truck,
followed closely by a half dozen or so unmanned trucks.

Complete story is on this page: The Army steps up its pace on self-driving cars - Axios

Bekeart

 

[LVSteve]

British Top Gear showed one at a test facility in Nevada some years ago. It was kinda creepy to watch.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My F-I-L was a Reserve CID, and investigated a number of thefts from driverless supply trams on tracks, inside a depot, with guards everywhere. ( The old 9th supply command, is DCSC Columbus, Ohio. They lost a 50 BMG almost every year!) Kind of scary all the heavy MG's, ammo, and explosives that just disappear. Imagine what No Accountability will produce with driverless supply trucks!

Ivan

 

[soFlaNative]

Army needs to rework the lyrics a bit.


"Was it high, was it low,
Where the hell did that one go?
As those caissons go rolling along
Was it left, was it right,
Now we won't get home tonight
And those caissons go rolling along."

 

[Goldstar225]

I'm going to jump to the assumption that the convoy depends on the leader/follower trucks. What happens if they are taken out? Does the convoy come to a halt and become subject to total destruction?

 

[amazingflapjack]

We had driverless deuce and a halfs all over the nam-and without all the technology. All you had to see is the outfit called "The Orient Express" come through a congested area. Like a train with no tracks-get out the way or be road kill. Had their own loaches and gun jeeps-a wild bunch from the OIC on down so they said-wow.