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Combat Truck * USA - Military tests for driverless TerraMax
It's one of 35 programmable trucks competing for Defense Department contractsOshkosh,WIS,USA -Associated Press/The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich), by Dinesh Ramde -October 3, 2007: -- TerraMax is a self-driving vehicle, a prototype designed to navigate and obey traffic rules -- all while the people inside, if there are any, do anything but drive... During a recent test on property owned by manufacturer Oshkosh Truck Co., TerraMax barreled down a dusty road with its driver seat empty. It stopped at a four-way intersection and waited on staged traffic before obediently lurching on its way... If the Defense Department gets its way, vehicles like TerraMax -- about as long as a typical sport utility vehicle and almost twice as high -- could represent the future of transportation for the military's ground forces... Congress has mandated that one in three ground combat vehicles be self-driving by 2015... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has sponsored a series of contests since 2003 in which prototype vehicles must navigate rough terrain and avoid obstacles... (Photo by Dinesh Ramde/Associated Press - The TerraMax, a military-vehicle prototype built by Oshkosh Truck, can navigate traffic and avoid obstacles without a driver)
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