{"id":39854,"date":"2014-02-17T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39854"},"modified":"2014-02-17T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:16:16","slug":"unmanned-trucks-at-fort-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39854","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned trucks at Fort Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HseUNLP6q24\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/video-unmanned-trucks-pass-another-test-at-fort-hood-1.268119\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that an unmanned convoy of trucks circled Fort Hood. As you can see in the video, the trucks even avoided hitting a simulated zombie who stumbled out in front of the vehicles;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The maneuvering and obstacle test in both a rural and urban environment marked a completed step for the Army and Marine Corps\u2019 Autonomous Mobility Appliqu\u00e9 System, but it was not the first time the military has let a drone truck drive.<\/p>\n<p> The military has been testing unmanned cargo trucks for several years in an effort to potentially save personnel from unnecessary or dangerous tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The January test involved sensor and GPS technology from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, as well as defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that an unmanned convoy of trucks circled Fort Hood. As you can see in the video, the trucks even avoided hitting a simulated zombie who stumbled out in front of the vehicles; The maneuvering and obstacle test in both a rural and urban environment marked a completed step for the Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-amO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}