Army tests self-driving trucks for the next big war

Ever since World War II, driving a truck has been one of the more dangerous wartime assignments; U.S. Army truck drivers were the first solders captured or killed in Operation Desert Storm, and in recent years contractors hired to haul goods for American armed forces suffered greatly from attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Which is the major reason a short convoy of trucks rumbled around Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month without drivers — testing a prototype driverless technology that could get bolted into anything rolling into harm's way on wheels.