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Not with all the cameras around them. Plus they are only going nonstop from Houston to Dallas right now.

I could stop your automated truck just by having two vehicles slow down and stop in front of it. The safety and anti-collision systems will ensure that it stops and avoids any accidents, and then sits there obediently while the two vehicles block both lanes. Then another member of the team gets into the trailer, and loots out whatever pieces of cargo they want and loads it in their vehicle.

Cops? Cops might be 10 or more minutes away. Cameras? Who cares? Everyone is masked anyway. No plates on the cars either. How do they know which truck to hijack? Because they have a friend at the terminal who knows the manifests and lets me know which truck has 500 new laptops or crates of cigarettes or liquor or guns, so I don’t waste my efforts on a rando truck hauling tomatoes.

Y’all don’t think like criminals, that’s for sure [/quote]

How about when you get sprayed by that UV fluorescent paint as soon as you try to break the lock on the truck? How about when they have gates beyond the doors and it takes you ten minutes to get them open (and by that time the police have arrived)? How about when they can use cameras that can identify you through retinal scanning? Or even voice prints that are recorded (although retinal would be better)? [/quote]

How about police aren’t really even going to do much at all other than issue a report # for an insurance claim? There was no human being put at risk or exposed to violence - therefore the response is not a priority call to begin with. It’s not a crime of violence, so jail time is very unlikely even if someone IS caught. Public sentiment on jury would also tend to fall towards the accused, since everyone knows the purpose of automated trucks is to put drivers out of work - and in a few years everyone will know someone who’s unemployed because of AI.

Put simply - you’re going to be hard pressed to find anyone who gives a sh!t that someone is stealing from the robot that took people’s jobs.  [/quote]

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