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The Army uses tons of transport helicopters in non-combat situations though, right? The military (having a significantly lower standard for 'safe enough' opera
by showerst 14y ago
The Army uses tons of transport helicopters in non-combat situations though, right?
The military (having a significantly lower standard for 'safe enough' operation than, say, airlines) will be an interesting inroad for autonomous transport vehicles in society.
- runjake 14y agoSure, and there may be applications there, but they aren't testing with a transport helicopter (such as a Chinook which flies quite differently than a Blackhawk or other traditional helo design), they're testing Blackhawks in a terrain avoidance environments. Two wholly different things.
- iamdave 14y agoWhat's important here is how you're using and what encapsulates "transport", that imo is critical to the point you're wanting to make, and whether or not I disagree with it.
- cheeseandbacon 14y agoThe military is usually the inroad for wide use civilian technologies.
- morsch 14y agoEither you're saying most civilian technologies were military in origin. Or you're saying most military technologies end up with civilian applications. I doubt the latter is true, and I'm not sure about the former either. The military R+D budget is big, but these days (maybe always?) it pales compared to public nonmilitary and commercial R+D activity.
- coopdog 14y agoI don't know, I think the second one could be true. I imagine it's quite likely that someone involved with this is also a hobby drone builder that also contributes to open source. If they've created some new algorithms or made some existing ones more robust it would be great to get those to the community.