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Friday, October 10, 2014
The Military's Future Car Is Much Crazier Than You Ever Imagined
An enclosed, armored seat. Cameras and sensors to see through the walls. Crew augmentation. And a fighter-jet style cockpit. DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies concept is the future fever dream of armored troop transportation.
Alright, so I'm not going to go ahead and say THIS IS DEFINITELY THE FUTURE OF ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS RIGHT HERE TOTALLY HAPPENING, because the joy of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is mostly just to imagine. It's to think of not only what the future could be, but what the future could be, and apply those ideas to warfighting.
Which is also not to say that all of those ideas are solely for the purpose of killing some people and saving others. A lot of DARPA ideas have filtered their way down to civilian life, like Siri (the CALO project), modern driverless vehicles, and *ahem* The Internet.
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