US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently visited California and got introduced to Kodiak’s defense vehicles. We have been working on both a Class 8 truck and an F-150 for military use, relying most of the same hardware and software that our commercial over-the-highway autonomous trucks use.
“We developed our autonomous driving system in a way that is conducive and broadly applicable to other environments outside of over the road highway,” said Burnette. “We think that’s a strategic advantage. And we want to take advantage of the fact that our system works in these dual use environments.”
Our F-150 is currently my primary project, along with many other colleagues, so this is particularly exciting for me. One of the interesting challenges on which I’m currently focusing is how to make Kodiak’s planning stack correct and robust for multiple types of vehicular platforms – everything from a large tractor-trailer configuration to a pick-up truck.
David Silver 