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What would stop heists on the high seas? For example, I could imagine someone breaking into a container with "valuable" goods (remember a lot of these pirates c

What would stop heists on the high seas? For example, I could imagine someone breaking into a container with "valuable" goods (remember a lot of these pirates come from impoverished backgrounds, so being able to flip cargo still net a nice profit).

blacksmith_tb 9y ago
Possible, but unloading cargo would be more involved. Also, without access to electronic manifests, I am not sure there's any easy way to know what's in a container, not to mention many of them would be stacked in such a way as to inaccessible. All of which is a lot harder than ransoming a crew. I suppose it might be possible for pirates just to threaten to sink the ship.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  One would simply disable propulsion and communications, and then haul the ship elsewhere for classification and sale of its cargo. With no humans on board, then there is no incentive not to use deadly force for disabling critical subsystems.
  - sfifs 9y ago
    equivalently, there's no real incentive to not use deadly force to clean the ships of pirates as a deterrence and take the write off on any damages. I suspect with drone ships and the lack of crew liability, there will arise contract security companies with pre-positioned ex-seal teams in hotspots to deal with piracy.
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- dredmorbius 9y ago
  With access to electronic manifests, you could program the logistical system to deliver the goods to the destination of your choosing. Which might be easier than piracy.
svarnypetr 9y ago
Another thing are systems like the one done by ATG - planning better routes for ships with multi-agent models. For example the paper Vaněk, Ondřej, Ondřej Hrstka, and Michal Pěchouček. "Improving group transit schemes to minimize negative effects of maritime piracy." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 15.3 (2014): 1101-1112.

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What would stop heists on the high seas? For example, I could imagine someone breaking into a container with "valuable" goods (remember a lot of these pirates c

by jdavis703 9y ago

blacksmith_tb 9y ago
Possible, but unloading cargo would be more involved. Also, without access to electronic manifests, I am not sure there's any easy way to know what's in a container, not to mention many of them would be stacked in such a way as to inaccessible. All of which is a lot harder than ransoming a crew. I suppose it might be possible for pirates just to threaten to sink the ship.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  One would simply disable propulsion and communications, and then haul the ship elsewhere for classification and sale of its cargo. With no humans on board, then there is no incentive not to use deadly force for disabling critical subsystems.
  - sfifs 9y ago
    equivalently, there's no real incentive to not use deadly force to clean the ships of pirates as a deterrence and take the write off on any damages. I suspect with drone ships and the lack of crew liability, there will arise contract security companies with pre-positioned ex-seal teams in hotspots to deal with piracy.
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- dredmorbius 9y ago
  With access to electronic manifests, you could program the logistical system to deliver the goods to the destination of your choosing. Which might be easier than piracy.
svarnypetr 9y ago
Another thing are systems like the one done by ATG - planning better routes for ships with multi-agent models. For example the paper Vaněk, Ondřej, Ondřej Hrstka, and Michal Pěchouček. "Improving group transit schemes to minimize negative effects of maritime piracy." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 15.3 (2014): 1101-1112.