As autonomous cars become more visible in certain cities, self-driving technology is being tested in other modes of transportation for the U.S. military.
In late August, the U.S. Army conducted testing on a commercial offshore supply vessel in Hawaii, completing an 18-hour, fully autonomous trip from Pearl Harbor to the Big Island.
The ship is the length of a football field and was retrofitted in nine days by Sea Machines Robotics, a Boston-based company that builds autonomous software for vessel sizes 10 to 300 feet.
Officials say the company’s SM300 autonomy package was used in the Army’s test vessel, in part, because it’s designed to operate in contested environments and in areas where GPS and other communications devices may not work.
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