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

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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