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Another issue will be piracy. Stop the truck using a couple of vehicles, cut open the lock on the rear doors, and loot. Pick an isolated stretch of toad, and t
by bradley13 3y ago
Another issue will be piracy.
Stop the truck using a couple of vehicles, cut open the lock on the rear doors, and loot. Pick an isolated stretch of toad, and the pirates will be gone before anyone can respond.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoWhy isn’t this an issue today? It’s not like the driver is going to challenge you if you show up with firearms
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThere's a pretty big jump in perceived criminality between violent crime and property crime; humans are social creatures, after all. Far more people are willing to steal a car that's parked on the street than to hijack one, far more people are willing to commit burglary than home invasion, etc. Even for the people willing to use violence, having a human involved opens up unpredictablity and risk. You can't know what's going on in the head of a random trucker, whether they're armed, whether they fancy themselves a cowboy, whatever. It's a high-risk, moderate reward scenario. In contrast, if you have a system for consistently hitting autonomous trucks, it's a (relatively) low risk, moderate reward crime.
- photonbeam 3y agoYou can already do that, the driver wont defend the payload
- sleepybrett 3y agobut the driver is a witness and a potential chaos agent so must be at least monitored and possibly killed. Robbing a driverless truck would convey less risk or potential death to the robber and less risk of catching a murder charge to go with your grand theft.
- bluescrn 3y agoIf there's no driver, there's no need to be armed, so instead of an armed robbery charge, the risk is just a theft charge. In a world where people defend shoplifting.