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This is actually an important problem. Cargo ships turn out to be responsible for a surprisingly high percentage of global emissions, and much of it could be eliminated with good autopilots.
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It's also a comparatively easy market to take. Shipping is a commodity, so if you develop technology that saves fuel and thus money and one shipping company uses it, they all have to.
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It seems pretty unlikely to me that an autopilot would save more than a few percent of fuel over a human pilot with computerized route planning.
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How? The emissions are due to propulsion, this is not affected by what is steering the ship
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@MartynHanlon would this have any significant effect on emissions? The fuel type would, but I can’t understand how AI navigation would differ from human? -
Commercial vessels already spend the vast majority of their time either in auto pilot or in port at anchor or alongside. Generally they only go into hand steering for entry and departure from Port, so I can’t see huge savings to be made. Will AI be any better than human steering?
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I'm guessing he means that if there are zero humans onboard, you can have the ship go slower, which is a huge energy savings due to the exponential nature of water resistance and drag vs velocity
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Looks like plastic straw ban to solve plastic pollution problem to me. Plus, as with trucking steeting the thing is propably 5% of the job.
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And/or sails.
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