Friday, March 28, 2025

Halo takes place in the 2550s, so why wasn't the Warthog self-driving? (Xpost: r/Halo)

 

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Halo takes place in the 2550s, so why wasn't the Warthog self-driving? (Xpost: r/Halo)

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Why wasn't travel in the Warthog just "(mark point on map as destination) and then 'Warthog, drive us to that destination?'" Why manual driving the old-fashioned way in the 26th century? Be like riding a horse & buggy from the 1600s, right?

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[–]AlotOfReading 5 points  

The Halo universe has general AIs like Cortana that could presumably do that. There's some minor lore about how autonomous combat systems were developed at some point in the past before being replaced by augmented humans like Master Chief.

Really, it's just how sci-fi vehicles were usually depicted when the original games were developed and it made for better gameplay.

[–]kschang 2 points  

I know, I'm trying to take that as "drily" as I can. :)

Considering that Master Chief have enough onboard storage to incorporate Cortana (or its analogs, like the Weapon) when they usually inhabit a ship's or base's mainframe... Hmmm...

Makes you wonder if a Warthog can fit Cortana, or is Cortana just going to remote controll it from somewhere else?

[–]johnpn1 15 points  

Because it ran Supervised FSD. You have to keep your hands on the wheel. Self driving will be delivered in 2018.

[–]comoestasmiyamo 2 points  

coast to coast by the end of the year...

[–]Nickmorgan19457 5 points  

Elon says it’ll be another 3 months

[–]reddit455 2 points  

then it would be a rail shooter instead of FPS.

[–]echobeacon 3 points  

Because they used Tesla FSD.

[–]Blog_Pope 3 points  

Elon in 2550 promises it will be released in 18 months

[–]Professional_Poet489 1 point  

It’s a Tesla probably

[–]TuftyIndigo 2 points  

Be like riding a horse & buggy from the 1600s, right?

That's not as crazy as you think. Horses were still used for military and civil logistics up to the 1970's.

There's a lot of legacy tech in the military. The "mid life extension" programme to retrofit all Warthogs with self-driving tech is probably already 147 years behind schedule, and its third extra budget appropriation is being held up in United Earth Congress because a space republican is holding out his vote until it includes a budget for towing Madagascar into the North Sea for gerrymandering purposes.

[–]Honest_Ad_2157 1 point  

You know why.

 

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