Top Stories This Week The innovation unit announced that five companies would move on to the next stage of fielding and testing their vehicles and self-driving systems at Fort Benning and Fort Hood, Texas.
According to Fort Benning officials, their pilot will have several phases.
Officials noted that driving routes will “explicitly exclude” sensitive facilities like the base airfield, ammunition supply points, and tactical compounds.
Autonomous, self-driving cars are the latest effort to modernize the military’s set of non-tactical vehicles.
For the Fort Benning pilot, officials said they plan to bring in four electric and two hybrid vehicles from three of the five private companies.