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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by drpgq on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:50PM (#7299146)
If there's no steering wheel, what do the pirates do?
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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by thedrbrian on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:56PM (#7299191)
Disable the computers and run the steering hydraulics manually
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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by phazmatis on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:07PM (#7302606)
This thing will have exposed wires, of course!
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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by matznerd on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:58PM (#7299207)
Tow the ship, assuming they had powerful enough boats...
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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by baddox on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:04PM (#7299674)
I highly doubt they have boats anywhere near that powerful.
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Re:Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @01:51PM (#7299573)
> Tow the ship, assuming they had powerful enough boats

Or just disable propulsion and then tow the ship. They'll probably figure out some cheap ways like "throw a fishing net into the turbine".

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