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I think the Army's self-flying helicopter trumps Google's self-driving car. This is the kind of competition where everyone wins! Edit: For the people who are s

• DanBC 14y ago
  > the kind of competition where everyone wins! I want to make a snarky comment about the dead (possibly innocent civilian) people not being winners, but I guess a drone is less likely to kill innocent people than shock & awe style bombing and cluster bombing, which tend to harm a lot of children. It's a weapon of war and so the US is unlikely to release any information for many years. That's a shame, because they've probably got some neat tech which could be used for self driving cars.
  • Pkger 14y ago
    No autonomous vehicle made by the US has attack / strike capabilities yet. The J-UCAS / J-UCAV was proposed and demo vehicles were made, but they are not even close to operational. I would imagine the blackhawk will be a similar situation where it starts out as a transport vehicle for the foreseeable future.
    • robotresearcher 14y ago
      Tomahawk cruise missiles are autonomous vehicles, as are stand-off anti-tank weapons that loiter on parachutes after deployment and choose their own target tanks.
      • drakeandrews 14y ago
        Israel have built an anti-radar missile that has cruise capability, allowing it to loiter above a theatre waiting for something to make an active radar lock. I think (but am not sure) that it can even land safely for reuse after a set time frame if unused.
• grecy 14y ago
  > This is the kind of competition where everyone wins! Except the people that the autonomous attack vehicle is killing.