If I block a road an autonomous truck is expecting to drive along, will it automatically reroute to another road? If it does, then these trucks are going to be very easy to rob simply by corralling them in to a quiet location..
My understanding is the most common thing to do is take the trailer when the truck is parked and the driver is away.
Anyway, the human is a witness which adds problems.
He's also a potential murder victim, which drives up the potential legal consequences by a lot.
I don't have much real world experience with heist execution, so take my speculation for what it is.
Because an automated truck will not have cameras all around it and also inside, and will phone home whenever some alert has been triggered?
And if it is even sort of a problem, companies shipping valuable stuff aren't just going to do nothing about it.
These trucks will be robbed. I look forward to LIDAR invisible, reflective cars in the next fast and furious installment.
But yeah, I think most truck jackings are targeted and often involve insiders, or occasionally a driver leaves the truck unsecured and someone drives off but that’s rare.
A less risky crime, both in the face of opposition by a potentially armed driver, and the potential criminal justice consequences.
How does it benefit the greater good to treat this a different, and I assume, more severe, crime than simple burglary of an unoccupied building?
But people rob banks, where they're also 100% guaranteed to be on camera and automatically involves an FBI investigation. As well as having a surprisingly low average haul (a few thousand dollars).
A few months ago I listed an old LCD TV on Craigslist. A bunch of offers fussed about coming to get it, and I ended up picking the most polite one and delivered it. I could barely even give it away!