The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles
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Re: The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles
#2Elon Musk and Sarah Connor both told them not to do that.
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#3"Human neutral" is the new term.
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#4Elon Musk and Sarah Connor both told them not to do that.
> with an automated machine gun
Yeah, how exactly can that be automated?
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#5What's the point in the Army developing its own, parallel autonomous vehicle technology? Why not just have DARPA funnel funds to Google or someone and piggyback off their research?
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#6Future of warfare is going to something more like Command And Conquer game, where operators will direct autonomous machine with a click of a mouse and warfare will be mostly done at a distance....
Probably with less casualties overall...
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#7This seems like an obvious step - why put a soldier or soldiers at risk to scout around the corner or breech a building when you can send in an armored quad?
Or have I been reading too much SciFi?
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#8What could possibly go wrong?
Re: The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles
#9Future of warfare is going to something more like Command And Conquer game, where operators will direct autonomous machine with a click of a mouse and warfare will be mostly done at a distance.... Probably with less casualties overall...
Future of symmetric warfare, sure. Future of asymmetric warfare looks a whole lot like Skynet sending robots to kill humans, but Skynet takes a mandated 15 minute coffee break every two hours.
Re: The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles
#10What's the point in the Army developing its own, parallel autonomous vehicle technology? Why not just have DARPA funnel funds to Google or someone and piggyback off their research?
Well, Google already piggybacked off of DARPA ;-)
Also, combat zones != California suburbs.