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I wonder how long before drugs are smuggled with drone ships.
Minus a couple of years, that is already a thing. Not sail drones though, as far as I know.
I was talking about a drone shipping tonns of drugs from South America to USA or Europe.
I work for a company that builds boats for many of the same goals in a more traditional form factor. The potential of autonomous marine vehicles is very high, and a very exciting field to be working in. https://www.asvglobal.com/ (If you're interested, we're hiring!)
What’s next? Car drones, rail drones and sub-marine drones? Bike drones?!
I imagine autonomous bicycles using gyroscopes to stay stable, highly integrated camera's with environment comprehension (Waymo off-the-shelf chips) to redistribute them over the city at night.
However, I also suspect that there will be a lot of car/automated-bicycle accidents since bicycle visibility at night isn't particularly high, and relies a lot on the rider's choice of visible clothing.
I wonder how long before drugs are smuggled with drone ships.
> “It’s fuel, consumables, and I don’t even want to tell you what our satellite bill is for data,” Interesting - the circumference of the earth is roughly 40 thousand km. If these could manage to lift an antenna either 140m (or equivalently 70m for all participants) - distance to Horizon should be roughly 40 km. So a thousand boats could form a theoretical relay net around a theoretical line in the ocean reaching aro…
Maybe a kite of some kind, but how do you reliably launch and retrieve it? I dunno, I think in practice the satellite may be cheaper.
> “It’s fuel, consumables, and I don’t even want to tell you what our satellite bill is for data,” Interesting - the circumference of the earth is roughly 40 thousand km. If these could manage to lift an antenna either 140m (or equivalently 70m for all participants) - distance to Horizon should be roughly 40 km. So a thousand boats could form a theoretical relay net around a theoretical line in the ocean reaching aro…
Younger researchers no longer want to spend that much time at sea, cut off from most of the internet. “It’s really hard to get the younger generation excited about going to sea,” says NOAA’s Meinig. “People think it’s romantic and then find they can’t text their friends and don’t have access to hundreds of channels of TV. It’s just a different style of life.” Fascinating. I guess the Saildrone is the ideal solution.
I couldn't figure out whether these things follow the rules of the road. Do they at least have AIS receivers?
I work for a company that builds boats for many of the same goals in a more traditional form factor. The potential of autonomous marine vehicles is very high, and a very exciting field to be working in. https://www.asvglobal.com/ (If you're interested, we're hiring!)