AI Is About To Take The Ship's Helm Away From Humans

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Reading that more than 80% of goods are transported by sea, a light bulb went off, says Vollmer. “We can have a very huge impact,” he remembers thinking. The French engineers started tinkering with robotizing a small boat along with another friend, Antoine de Maleprade.

In the near term, it’s more likely that the helm will be controlled by an autonomous system or a remote human operator while a smaller crew takes care of the vessel. Transoceanic autonomous journeys will require rule-making by the International Maritime Organization, a process that could take through the middle of the next decade.

The tugboat market also has a good near-term business case for autonomy and remote control, says Levander. “There’s a very attractive payback time, crew costs are high,” he says. Rolls-Royce demonstrated remote control of a tugboat in Copenhagen in 2017 working with Svister, a tug operator owned by Maersk. A Boston-based startup called Sea Machines is also developing autonomous and remote-control systems for tugs, ferries and other workboats.

Microphones can pick up a ship’s horn and by algorithm the system can pinpoint its location. The system also add layers of intelligence, says Vollmer. “It can flag you should pay attention to this one ship because it has erratic behavior.”

Pretty good until something unexpected happens.

NO thanks

CC AnthonyClose This seems relevant...

No thanks!

Stealing Jobs around the world!!!

It depends. How close is the Rescue boat?

In good weather, np. Add wind, waves, current, other boats, etc, I'll take a human captain every time.

Listen, if my ferry doesn’t want me to know its name that then it’s not of my business.

AndrewYang

Yeah, as the captain of a ship this is a monumentally stupid idea.

Until you successfully marry the remaining AI components no you're creating useless technology

About time...😉✌

Nope!

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I’ve seen ‘Terminator’. No thanks.

I won’t even use self check out at Walmart. No way I’m getting on a boat with no humans to make decisions or help in an emergency. This is just beyond ridiculous. And imagine the theft and takeover possibilities for pirates/criminals/hackers.

Nope.

Better

After the Boeing jet crashes, no thanks.

It depends on who the autonomous passenger is.

I know weather can change in a heartbeat as can the seas. No thanks

If it can make a coffee and parallel park in the high seas, I’m in! 😂🤣🤪

No thanks. I would rather stick to a highly skilled human working to feed his family. Just because you can don't mean you should

And so if you’re lost at sea and shooting off flares and waving your arms.. you’re out of luck.

Only if the AI is in a drunken computer with a parrot on it.

Totally unsafe

Not good.

Is employing boat captains a big drain on resources? Wtf?

Fine

So, my autonomous Tesla’s advanced mapping GPS knows I must take the ferry, it accesses Apple Pay & secures a spot for me. I’m reading War&Peace so I don’t notice the robomapper directing the vehicles boarding. I fall asleep because of the motion and wake up in my garage, okay...

Are we so cheap and greedy that we don’t want a single human to be in place while transporting tens or hundreds of paying customers across large expanses of water?

Ya mean like one of these?

You just gave me a panic attack by mentioning that. Thanks

The only feeling I have is being on Forbes 100.....Woman if the hour

No. Just no.

Gracias, no

I think the Boeing 737 has answered this question.

No way! If a human is not in control, I'm not riding.

Would it know what to do if a Martian battle walker suddenly rose up from the depths?

I wouldn't

Hey, YangGang, here are some more jobs we won't have, soon.

I don’t have much occasion to ride on a ferry, autonomous or not. ferries only exist in movies..

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