Two container ships sailing at 90 degrees to each other (making their entire flanks visible to the bridge of the other ship), travelling at 15 to 25 miles per hour in perfect weather conditions, manned by 10 to 20 crew each, sporting a huge array of navigational and tracking equipment, including a satellite based Automatic Identification System (AIS) which basically means that every big ship in that area knows where every other big ship is, what direction they are travelling and at what speed, and governed by the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, which both captains would have been able to recite in their sleep, crashing perpendicularly (implying that both ships were oblivious to their situation and did very little to avoid the collision, which they are both obligated to do regardless of who had right of way), in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea…
Begs the question:
How on earth can we prevent potentially hundreds of thousands of semi-autonomous vehicles, travelling at 3 times the speed of the 2 ships, in opposite directions, driven by a single untrained driver (who probably isn’t sure who is responsible for control of the vehicle and who never thought to read the hand book, never mind any of the warnings, because nobody reads the hand book until something stops working, and “hell, the internet said my car could drive itself”), separated merely by painted white lines, from occasionally doing the same?