Not long ago, I read William Langewiesche's Vanity Fair article on the El Faro disaster. Not long before that, I read the Navy Times opinion piece about today

Not long ago, I read William Langewiesche's Vanity Fair article on the El Faro disaster. Not long before that, I read the Navy Times opinion piece about today's Navy not being very good at driving ships any more. I took from these articles that, even with modern ships, navigation is difficult and dangerous. How will autonomous ships handle heavy weather and crowded shipping lanes?