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Autonomous ships

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January 17, 2016

Freighters that sail the high seas without a captain or crew on board – that still sounds like an idea from a science fiction novel. A high-tech simulator is helping scientists at a Fraunhofer Institute run tests. They say shipping can be made safer than it is today.

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