The Silverado Sheds Its Driver for a Shot at the Army

The pickup parked in half the driveways in this country has been reworked by GM Defense into a prototype that needs no one behind the wheel. The vehicle, built on Chevrolet's Silverado, is being considered by the U.S. Army, one of several candidates under review. That a showroom truck can be the foundation for a self-piloting machine says something about how far the platform has come, and about the engineering GM's defense arm has put into it.

With reporting from Car and Driver.