Self driving electric boats
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-economic-forum_these-boats-dock-autonomously-read-more-activity-6884101189688946688-dAxq
Amsterdam has self serving electric boats, the roboat uses AI to map objects and avoid collisions, finding the swiftest route along the city's famous canals, and docking autonomously, the boats could transform amsterdam's streets as well as its waterways. Stephen the director of Institute says "We have lot of road traffic and congestion, e-commerce, logistics that is cluttering the small streets in the inner city, while at the same time we have a lot of open water available in the canals that is not being used anymore for transport - only for tourists, so we developed autonomous ship to help with logistics in the city". The Roboats' first test will be trash collection, they will act as floating refuse s, cruising back to base when full, it means fewer dump truck will be needed, roboats can also join together, In time, they could be used as a floating concert platform, A temporary bridge or even to form a circle to contain an oil spill at sea .
So, would you ride in an autonomous boat??