As a kid, we had camper at a lake campground. We had the prime spot next to the boat ramp. It was never ending entertainment watching people put boats in and take them out. We considered making scorecards.
We made it a point to put our boat in & pull it out when no one was around. We made it happen, but our style score was low.
I’ll have to poke around. They seem to use DP trolling motors, which are a thing now.
L3 / Wartsila did that for Volvo and for Merc
Robots, snowbots. Can’t see any machinery powered vessel “Fix itself remotely”. Engineers will always be needed.
Yes things will always need servicing, maintenance and repairs, or replacement, but not necessarily while underway. If Fuel cell, or molten salt rectors, become the machinery of choice in the future the skill requirements to carry out this work will be very different from today.
The engine room of the future may not look much like that on most ships today.
In fact some new ships are already VERY different from what is considered “normal” by most mariners. Multiple generators in two separate compartments. Doubling, or even tripling up of machinery and systems. Propulsion by electric motors driving Azipods and thrusters. Batteries for storage of excess power when available and for use at peak requirement. All managed by a computerized Power Management System. (Somebody care to elaborate??)
PS> 100% redundancy of all systems are required to obtain DP3 Class.
I guess I’ve been away too long. Just don’t see no humans aboard, especially engineers.
Engineers went from aircraft, then the extra engines as they just got more and more reliable.
Perhaps ocean going box ships will become barges and power units will push them which can swap put anytime from anywhere?
Look at the waste today with all those ships anchored around Singapore running gen sets to keep the humans alive.
Then you have a whole bunkering industry, which might go away as the power units just come ashore to get resupplied and or stay ashore still required?
Humans still required powerabout. Not to start a shit show, but it does require common sense. Another spirited debate on this site a while back. Are those vessel navigation solutions monitored by some computer genius in his basement? No thank you. Will the other fellow who monitors the engines make the repairs at sea? Again, no thank you. Perhaps I am old fashioned, but see massive problems with this concept.
yes, humans make the robots
Aircraft could happily fly from terminal to terminal by themselves but still need maintenance which is constantly reducing.
No longer have piston engines in aircraft the industry needed something more reliable and less maintenance intensive so it changed.
We have driverless trains when appropriate
Ships have moved on from hand shoveled coal…
So lots of room to change
Not a very good comparison. Driverless trains are on a set path. The rails. Ships are not. Nor is aircraft. I don’t know about you, but would step on a plane that did not have living, breathing pilot with good depth perception? How about you sir?
its just your perception, what is the pilot doing for you?
He gets told where to go and it could be computer controlled from gate to gate.
Most of the last major airline crashes have happened due to the pilots intervening, had they have not been there the crashes wouldnt have happened.
Vessels sit for months on DP, dont need human operators
There are ferries operating on set short routes with no crew
Ships still sink in storms as the captain made the decision to sail into them
You didn’t answer my question, would you fly on a plane with no pilot?
sure, how do you know there are pilots today as with current security the door never opens.
So you want pilots but if you knew the industry you would know the young guys are not taught to fly anymore which explains the recent crashes
The skills you think they have only exist in the guys with grey hair
So the answer is?
yes I would fly with no pilot especially these days as the plane is better at flying than the skill set of the pilot
I do see drones get back home, they dont lose them
Underwater drones as well which are autonomous, give them the route and away they go, mature technology that can work with lots of different forms of transport
I don’t want the guy in the basement landing the plane. Thank you for answering my question. No hard feelings at all sir. You do bring some valid points on a few items.
when flying in fog, who is landing the plane as in ILS landing?
When driving a vessel in fog, it aint the guy in the basement.
in fog you are 100% relying on instruments not humans
