Samsung floats autonomous ships as ready to sail in 2022

[Klaralven]

Samsung has floated the prospect of soon selling autonomous ships, if it can sail one successfully in August 2021.

The Chaebol says it’s teamed with Korea’s Mokpo National Maritime University to fit the Samsung Autonomous Ship system to a 133m-long, 9,200 tonne training vessel and sail it from the port of Mokpo to the island of Jeju.

Passenger ferries make that journey in around five and a half hours, the route features some narrow channels and numerous small islands.

Samsung’s automation won’t have an easy time of it.

If successful, Samsung Heavy hopes to start selling its maritime automation kit in 2022.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/samsung_autonomous_ship/

[soothsayer]

1. What could go wrong?

Hacking maybe for one.