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I'd say the problem is even worse in an urban environment. Nobody, including police, will pay any attention to those alarms. Autonomous trucks will end up havin
by intrasight 10y ago
I'd say the problem is even worse in an urban environment. Nobody, including police, will pay any attention to those alarms.
Autonomous trucks will end up having armed androids.
- jcoffland 10y agoYou don't need an android to operate a gun turret.
- Reason077 10y agoThe likely model initially is for trucks to run autonomously on highways for the long-haul part of the route, then have a human driver take over for the "last mile" of a delivery to an urban area. The reason isn't so much security but rather that autonomous urban driving is a more difficult problem to solve. The idea of roaming gangs holding up autonomous trucks might make a good plot for a sci-fi movie, but in the real world it probably isn't as big a problem as we imagine. Most of these things are going to contain pretty mundane shipments. If you're shipping currency or gold bullion or iPhones then sure, maybe more security would be appropriate.