I support your statement 100%. Lets analyze a simple problem. What happen if you throw a mannequin in front of a truck? If it stop then there is a very easy way to pirate them. Human are always needed in very complex decision making circumstances.
Pirating trucks with humans in them is not much more difficult. Humans also tend to stop when you put obstacles in front of them and I doubt they would defend their cargo if a gun is waved in front of them. The reason that highway robbery is not common today is not because it's difficult to do.
The autonomous truck will trigger an alert when it's forced to make an emergency stop, and continually record its surroundings and broadcast its position. A watchdog process will note that the vehicle has failed to reach the next waypoint in the expected amount of time.
Sure, and that could happen now, but if I had to stereotype drivers(which is how criminals frequently operate), truckers would be the last kind of person I would want to mess with. Surely a huge percentage of truckers, especially overnight truckers, are packing heat.
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