Legal aspects of Autonomous ships

[ombugge]

Autonomous ship trials to be held in Singapore

These MASS trials will test the interoperability of autonomous vessels with port-based systems, including MPA’s vessel-traffic information system, and support the development of best practices and standards for navigation safety, route planning, fuel consumption, decision making using artificial intelligence, communications and cyber security in the port of Singapore.

“This collaboration provides an important platform for us to test and validate new concepts of operations in Singapore’s port waters,” said MPA chief marine officer, Capt M Segar.

[spowiednick]

Autonomous ship from the port ops perspective

TT Talk - July 2025: What autonomous ships mean for ports

[powerabout]

what happens when an autonomous car crashes into you?

[spowiednick]

Then I say :

1.fuck U ROBOT followed by

2. Shit happens.

Have You like others already done it , hit the ignore button near my avatar??

[Tugboater203]

Apparently there is an illegal aspect to drone ships too…

Drone "narco sub" — equipped with Starlink antenna — seized for the first...

[float]

Narcos will not care for ColRegs, but even state-owned unmanned unobstrusively painted reconaissance / security drones that will be increasingly deployed in busy waters (think of baltic), potentially posing a danger for small ships / boats, may result in interesting legal deliberations, if they can be traced to their respective owners at all after an accident and don’t conveniently “vanish”.