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A convoy of enemy pickups is headed directly towards the platoon. The Marine pushes out an alert to the rest of the platoon and then switches from dual-display mode to left-only as he raises his weapon to his eye.
This is what the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is working on with its ongoing AR Glasses project;
Signals couldn be allowed to change midway through a platoon or it would leave stragglers behind. latoons would need to transmit their status to the intersection
or delayed to treat the platoon as a single long vehicle, said Alan Stevens, chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL. ither the platoon could signal that it cleared the intersection
or there would need to be infrastructure sensors to check the whole platoon is through.
This is already happening in in a limited sense, noted Stevens. t a local signal level, we can implement priority measures for ambulances,
The trucks were fitted with technology developed by a startup called Peloton Tech (elotonis The french word for platoon.
He adds that the technology could even allow competing companies to platoon together to get these savings.
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
has been testing platoons made of three semi-automated or fully automated trucks since 2007. A U s. project, called PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation technology
or a military platoon, commented Anders Sandberg of the University of Oxford, who was involved not in the research. ut there no guarantee that brain-to-brain interfaces will be a sensible thing in practice.
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