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Post by faskew on Oct 15, 2018 8:19:30 GMT -5
From Wired News this AM.
"Over the past decade, there have been more than 1,000 total losses of large ships, and at least 70 percent of those resulted from human error. The argument looks a lot like the one for self-driving cars: Machines stay sober and focused, beat out human reaction times, and can look in every direction at once. Get their programming right, and they should crash less than humans do."
"Moreover, the economic case for automating shipping is clear: About 100,000 large vessels are currently sailing the world's oceans, and the amount of cargo they carry is projected to grow around 4 percent a year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Beyond preventing accidents, human-free ships could be 15 percent more efficient to run, because they don't need energy-gobbling life support systems, doing things like heating, cooking, and lugging drinking water along for the ride." ------------------------------------------
Of course, this would also mean that thousands of sailors will be unemployed. 8-<
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Post by rmarks1 on Oct 16, 2018 23:00:12 GMT -5
From Wired News this AM. "Over the past decade, there have been more than 1,000 total losses of large ships, and at least 70 percent of those resulted from human error. The argument looks a lot like the one for self-driving cars: Machines stay sober and focused, beat out human reaction times, and can look in every direction at once. Get their programming right, and they should crash less than humans do." "Moreover, the economic case for automating shipping is clear: About 100,000 large vessels are currently sailing the world's oceans, and the amount of cargo they carry is projected to grow around 4 percent a year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Beyond preventing accidents, human-free ships could be 15 percent more efficient to run, because they don't need energy-gobbling life support systems, doing things like heating, cooking, and lugging drinking water along for the ride." ------------------------------------------ Of course, this would also mean that thousands of sailors will be unemployed. 8-<
How about this though?
All the modern pirates would need would be a couple of programmers to re-direct the ship. They wouldn't even have to have anyone board. Just put a virus in the ship's computer to make it go radio silent and sail to a new destination.
Bob
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Post by faskew on Oct 17, 2018 8:22:25 GMT -5
Not really any different than pirates taking human-run ships these days, is it? Some human-run ships arm themselves and there's no reason a robot ship couldn't have weapons, drones, etc. Taking control with software might be possible, but I'd think that companies would put a lot of effort into preventing that sort of thing. And there'd be ways to track stolen vessels, buy GPS or satellite or whatever. A ship that was under pirate control would be difficult to hide, and new technology will make it ever easier to locate in the future.
International commerce depends on ships, docks, warehouses, trucks, trains and stores. Stuff can be robbed from any one of the six. There will never be a perfect anti-theft system. But there are ways to prevent most of the problems. It's a constant struggle. At some point, the pirates decide that the effort isn't worth the payoff and stick to stealing from easier targets. Maybe. 8->
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