Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe

Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by ris on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:05PM (#11463049)

The thing that strikes me about this is less to do with highway safety and more "how many assets can a company put in the hands of one human to guard?". It seems like it would be none too difficult for hijackers to box off the tail end vehicle and slow it to a halt giving them ample time to loot it before the driver even got a chance to stop the rest of the convoy. The looters could be gone without even needing to confront the driver.

Worrying.

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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by hrktb on Saturday April 09, 2016 @05:02PM (#11463308)

This would be an arms race between truck companies and looters, with companies leveling up in security on their trucks.

But in this case I am not sure the problem is so different than with a human driver. I can't imagine a employee risking to get beaten up/shot just to save the cargo from a group of robbers for instance.

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Re:Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journ... by ris on Sunday April 10, 2016 @11:47AM (#11466660)

I think though that this makes a difference from the criminal's point of view. Performing the operation without threatening the driver makes it theft instead of robbery (?), which is significantly less serious from a legal point of view.

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