A host of companies around the United States take off-the-shelf Polaris side-by-sides, strip them down to their constituent frames, remove all but the most essential drivetrain parts, and then go to town adding autonomous vehicle technology to them so they can then turn around and sell them to the U.S. military and our allies abroad. Why? Because the RZR and MRZR platforms are built to take a hit and keep on trucking.
And in recent years, those contracts have become ever more lucrative and necessary, as small-war conflicts have become more of the norm, and autonomous vehicles have the real potential to save soldiers on the battlefields of tomorrow and today. Why send in troops to recover the wounded when you can just remotely operate or send an autonomous RZR to pick them up?
