Self-Driving Ships

Greetings,
Self-driving cars have been in the news lately.  It turns out that there are even bigger plans for self-driving technology.  Self-driving ships may be part of our future:
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/01/world/i-am-captain-now-self-driving-ships-coming-soon

Self-driving technology appears to have a number of applications.  It'll be interesting to see how this plays out over the next several years.