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Rolls-Royce’s cargo ship of the future

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The remote control room which will act as the bridge is more futuristic than just about any Star Trek bridge we've seen. It resembles The USS Vengeance bridge.


http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-t...utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=DT-FB#/7


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So the male gets to sit down while his female minion has to stand? How did that happen? I presume said minion has to replenish his beverage receptacle.
 
It's very monochromatic. Also a tad unrealistic with the floating holograms. While the look of it is interesting, the point of the article is that the cargo ship is unmanned, remotely controlled from this control center. While I can imagine that remotely controlling a ship is actually not that complicated, I do wonder about how reliable they think ships are. Most ships aren't like cars that can run for long periods of time without maintenance, they usually need someone on board monitoring, adjusting, and repairing as it's underway.

They also bring up piracy in the article:
The issue of piracy, of course, springs immediately to mind. Precisely how would the ships be protected against such attacks, and what safeguards will be in place to prevent a hacker gaining access to the ship’s systems and sailing it to a port of their choice? Rolls-Royce is working on it.
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The remote control is really another layer of oversight to make people feel comfortable, in a few years they really won't need people in the equation at all.

Actually floating holograms or volumetric displays can be done already..even from a smartphone with the right peripheral, so it's not hard to believe they can be used in a few years in a day-to-day operation.

I could foresee remote control anti-piracy weapons on a drone ship. These might include small swarm drones or larger drones. Automatic or remote control pop-up turrets with non-lethal or lethal anti-personnel guns are also possibilities.
 
I do wonder that why would the remote control room look like that? What would be the purpose of all those large holographic / curved displays and futuristic materials and curved walls?

I would imagine that in the real life it would look more like this:
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I work in logistics and deal with sea freight shipments (though not for a shipping line but one of its customers) so let me say to you that 2020 is way unrealistic. Of course the technology is headed there but unmanned is a pipe dream. Such ships are maintenance intense and if you are in the middle of the Atlantic of Pacific a failing engine or any other critical system is not acceptable, much less if you are in rough seas.

Additionally the design of the ship itself (looks like a submarine) is utter bullshit. You all know how a contemporary container ship looks like and there's a reason for that.. ease of access to the containers and fast loading/unloading because port time is expensive and the ship doesn't make money while in port.

So until they invent a completely robotically controlled ship that can actually maintain itself consistently and to a high degree (that will happen though not in 4 years, more like 40 years) this one should be placed in the "cool looking but unrealistic" category.. nice to look at but in the end not practical.
 
FPAlpha said:
Additionally the design of the ship itself (looks like a submarine) is utter bullshit. You all know how a contemporary container ship looks like and there's a reason for that.. ease of access to the containers and fast loading/unloading because port time is expensive and the ship doesn't make money while in port.
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Also, considering that modern cargo vessels usually travel at speeds of 20 to 24 knots, there's little point in streamlining the bits above the waterline (other than the "looks cool" factor). The same goes for passenger ships.

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In hauling cargo cheap is king, this is why container ships have grown enormously, also durability is king, anything fancy smansy that is fragile you can totally forget about seeing it end up deployed, you do NOT want to spend a quarter of a million bucks to have your ship towed back to a suitable port because some computery tech thingy broke down, you have to realise that you can't just park a 1300 ft ship with a 52ft draught like for example the Emma Maersk in just any port.
 
 
Somewhere Captain Jack Sparrow is very excited at the prospect of these uncrewed treasure ships sailing the seven seas, ahar.
 
All that tech, and at the end of the day still needs pen and paper. lol

Plus that has got to be the worse cup holder placement in the history of cup holder placements. lol
("Captian log, day 7, 52 cups knocked over and broken by elbow")
( addendum..."Doc say's i have dislocated shoulder reaching for cup"). lol
 
Oh I agree, it's a little too idealized of course, but it's amazing what they come up with. It really looks like the Vengeance bridge. Most of these videos are thought experiments but eventually certain elements will make it to reality.

FPAlpha said:
I work in logistics and deal with sea freight shipments (though not for a shipping line but one of its customers) so let me say to you that 2020 is way unrealistic. Of course the technology is headed there but unmanned is a pipe dream. Such ships are maintenance intense and if you are in the middle of the Atlantic of Pacific a failing engine or any other critical system is not acceptable, much less if you are in rough seas.

Additionally the design of the ship itself (looks like a submarine) is utter bullshit. You all know how a contemporary container ship looks like and there's a reason for that.. ease of access to the containers and fast loading/unloading because port time is expensive and the ship doesn't make money while in port.

So until they invent a completely robotically controlled ship that can actually maintain itself consistently and to a high degree (that will happen though not in 4 years, more like 40 years) this one should be placed in the "cool looking but unrealistic" category.. nice to look at but in the end not practical.
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scotpens said:
Also, considering that modern cargo vessels usually travel at speeds of 20 to 24 knots, there's little point in streamlining the bits above the waterline (other than the "looks cool" factor). The same goes for passenger ships.

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Hmm. What if the ship gets caught in a tropical storm of some kind? Wouldn't it be important for such scenarios to streamline above the waterline to reduce wind drag, in order to keep the ship from listing too much?
 
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