From DARPA to the battlefield: Oshkosh demonstrates driverless PLS vehicle; robot truck could carry beans and bullets in war zones with less risk to personnel

摘要

Virtually every modern war has introduced - or at least greatly hastened the development of - new mobility technology, In WWI, it was the tank, WWII, the airplane and Jeep and in Vietnam, it was the helicopter. For Afghanistan and Iraq, it could be the unmanned vehicle. Already, unmanned air vehicles (UAV) like the Predator and Global Hawk, are performing high-risk missions without putting human pilots in harm's way. Now because of the risks to troops posed by suicide bombers or improvised explosive devices (IED), the push is on to develop unmanned trucks.