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Video: Inside the cockpit of DARPA’s awesome missile-dodging buggy

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Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would feel at home inside DARPA’sGXV-T missile-dodging superbuggy. This video shows how the Pentagon’s research arm wants the cockpit to be: Closed, with high-definition touch screens providing wide-angle visibility and displaying combat information in augmented reality. It’s really impressive.

A closed cockpit that would use visualization technologies to provide high-definition, wide-angle visibility of external conditions.

Path planning that would display optimal routes.

Sensors that would use a variety of technologies to visualize surroundings and identify and track allies and adversaries.

Terrain classification that would evaluate surroundings for optimal travel surfaces.

Autopilot capabilities that would automate routine driving tasks to enable drivers to focus on more strategic activities.


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