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Gari_305 OP t1_iz4wchq wrote

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>Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics said Tuesday that it won a two-year, $49.9 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to help develop automated combat vehicles for the U.S. Army.
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>The company said the vehicles will be tailored for reconnaissance, surveillance and other missions that would present a high risk to a human driver.

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Snakeprincess69 t1_iz63b8n wrote

> The company said the vehicles will be tailored for reconnaissance, surveillance and other missions that would present a high risk to a human driver.

So use a drone...

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rpl755871 t1_iz732hd wrote

Isn’t a drone just a driverless vehicle? That’s what this is no? If you mean an aerial drone, well, they’ve been doing that. But sometimes there is poor visibility because of weather, tree cover, etc…

Also, drones are limited in there payload in ways that a tank or recon vehicle may not be.

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Snakeprincess69 t1_iz7muhr wrote

They're flown by a human afaik. I suppose those are some valid use cases, but being autonomous isn't adding a lot there. You could just operate them remotely like the drones. Autonomous cars don't even work on regular roads. Surely a human is monitoring the video footage in real time regardless.

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