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I am quite sure the options the military is exploring and now using to keep that from happening to their drones would be applied here. Ships could be instructe

I am quite sure the options the military is exploring and now using to keep that from happening to their drones would be applied here. Ships could be instructed to accept orders under very strict rules, perhaps even ignoring orders while operating in certain regions. Given full ability to understand their surroundings they could avoid collisions with anything that would seriously damage their hulls and ignore most smaller vessels that are acting in obvious means to try an intercept them. Plus with no crew on board you do not need to provide easy access to anything, just seal it. I am more interested in driver less big rigs and trains. I figure that planes and ships are more heavily protected by union organizations.

matznerd 13y ago
I'm sure the military is working on that, and I imagine it is a lot harder to interfere with a drone flying thousands of feet into the sky, than to interfere with a ship that you could get very close to. Yet, it looks like Iran was able to use some sort of GPS Spoofing to take down a US drone last year [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... ] I agree with you and forecast that big rigs and trains will eventually be automated as well. Energy companies are already using autonomous dump trucks in Canada. [ http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/autonomous-dump-trucks-are-coming-to-canadas-oil-sands http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/autonomous-dump-trucks-are-... ]
chaosphere2112 13y ago
> I am more interested in driver less big rigs and trains. I figure that planes and ships are more heavily protected by union organizations. Well, there's always the teamsters[1] to consider. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Teamsters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Te...

matznerd 13y ago

I'm sure the military is working on that, and I imagine it is a lot harder to interfere with a drone flying thousands of feet into the sky, than to interfere with a ship that you could get very close to. Yet, it looks like Iran was able to use some sort of GPS Spoofing to take down a US drone last year [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... ] I agree with you and forecast that big rigs and trains will eventually be automated as well. Energy companies are already using autonomous dump trucks in Canada. [ http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/autonomous-dump-trucks-are-coming-to-canadas-oil-sands http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/autonomous-dump-trucks-are-... ]

chaosphere2112 13y ago

> I am more interested in driver less big rigs and trains. I figure that planes and ships are more heavily protected by union organizations. Well, there's always the teamsters[1] to consider. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Teamsters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Te...