WASHINGTON: Forget Uber, Waymo and Tesla: The next big name in self-driving vehicles could be the Pentagon.
“We're going to have self-driving vehicles in theatre for the Army before we'll have self-driving cars on the streets,” Michael Griffin, the undersecretary of defence for research and engineering, told lawmakers at a hearing on Capitol Hill last month. “But the core technologies will be the same.”
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