[QUOTE=brjones;181111]I can tell you first hand than nothing on ships is 100% redundant[/QUOTE]
Not on existing ship that you have served on, but before autonomous ship gets approved IT WILL HAVE TO BE.
We are not talking about taking any old ship and do some basic conversion, but to design, build and equip the ships of the future for autonomous operation, with all the necessary systems in place to do so safely.
I am of the old schooled that sailed on ships built in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, some even without radar or gyro, but I am also able to see that the future ships will be VERY different, even from today’s premium vessels.
Vessels with DP3 class may be the closes to that future, but not 100% there yet.
Some of the brightest brains in the ship design and automation business is hard at work to make the autonomous ship a reality, sooner rather than later.
You may as well get used to the idea. I don’t, I’m too old for this shit, but it will probably happen within my life time, I.A.