Drone speedboat isn't

A demonstration of an "unmanned surface vessel" in London yesterday actually took place with a coxswain sat inside the boat. The Bladerunner speedboat is a remote-controlled technology demonstrator being used by the Ministry of Defence. Yesterday Bladerunner, in the company of Royal Navy patrol boat HMS Archer, performed some …

[Starace]

You do understand why it was manned?

The story implies it was manned because it didn't work.

The actual reason was that it wasn't legally allowed on the river without a crew being present, even if they were just sat back having coffee.

Slight difference.

[TRT]

Re: You do understand why it was manned?

Why didn't they get a woman to sit in it? Then they could still say it was unmanned.

[mdava]

I did wonder

Why an unmanned boat had such a big windscreen.

[Robert Carnegie]

Technically a "torpedo" would qualify :-)

Probably also not allowed on the Thames though. Although I seem to remember at least one James Bond movie (but maybe I don't).