Cyber/MASS
It is almost midnight, a full moon is shining over the Thames. The river is calm, the reflection of a ship’s name is on the water: ‘CREWLESS’. It is a shame that no one can see this reflection from her weather deck, there are no crew onboard. She is an autonomous ro-ro cargo ship which just sailed from a nearby berth upstream, after a full cargo of autonomous cars and trucks loaded themselves onboard her seven decks. CREWLESS is heading towards Rotterdam where the cars and trucks will drive themselves off to their destinations without human intervention.
– Is this a realistic scenario any time soon?
– Where is autonomous shipping at present?
– If there is an accident/incident involving this unmanned autonomous ship and claims arise what different factors could be considered compared to manned ships