[gnusci]

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.

[adrianN]

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.

[gnusci]

Of course, there is nothing new in on the road pirating trucks. However, the question is what an autonomous truck will do?

[canhascodez]

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.

[oh_sigh]

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.

[axilmar]

Also, delaying a competitor's trucks to put them out of business...