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The future of shipping will be autonomous. It will end the horrible labor abuses, and quite possibly halt piracy. However it would require trust. An autonomous
by ajay-b 5y ago
The future of shipping will be autonomous. It will end the horrible labor abuses, and quite possibly halt piracy. However it would require trust. An autonomous ship could just has easily be a Trojan horse!
- wahern 5y agoI doubt the most abusive shippers will switch to autonomous shipping anytime soon. Rather, reductions in labor will attract the more responsible, better paying shippers that some global communities (e.g. in the Philippines) heavily rely upon for income. Because being responsible is expensive; automation replaces employees, not slaves.
- knodi123 5y ago> quite possibly halt piracy ?!? Anything you could do to keep an unmanned ship from being robbed, you could do to a manned ship too. > autonomous ship could just has easily be a Trojan horse! ?!? A manned ship could be a Trojan Horse too, in much the same way that the actual horse in the legend was.
- exporectomy 5y agoPirates use human crew as hostages. Without hostages, the other country's military could just shoot them.
- dane-pgp 5y agoCorrect, and the submarine could even include explosives designed to destroy the cargo and puncture the hull if it was opened without authorisation or lost GPS and radio signal for longer than a pre-determined length of time.