According to UK’s Daily Telegraph, along with the continuous advances of driverless drones taking to the air and cars on the highways, it’s certain to happen. It’s only a matter of a few years before ocean-going vessels, including cruise ships, will be totally run by robots.

That means no crew, and we veteran senior cruisers may find it a great advantage. Or not. For instance, on crewless cruises, there will be:

Airport check-in processes are inconvenient even on the rare occasions when they go smoothly. Savvy senior travelers can’t help being angry about it, because ever-tightening security started over 40 years ago.

In the 1970s, a bunch of Cuban and Arab political and/or religious freaks decided to hijack, murder and blow up their own insane butts in passenger aircraft. They believed it would advance their crazy causes.

Then came the horror of 9/11/01, and the growing security mess now affects every flight to anywhere. Even in the worst delay messes, there are ways to make your own check-in process easier. While you can’t do anything to change the security system, you can take personal steps to help get through it with less delay and frustration.

Here are some suggestions:

Many senior travelers, because of advanced age and physical limits, have problems when confronted by street and highway blockages caused by protesters. For example: a Middle East city becomes dangerous because of a terror attack or London streets are blocked by striking cabbies. Problems in the U.S. caused by current escalating protests may make senior travel more difficult, and too often dangerous.

Guest Travel Writer RJP, Buffalo NY: Many friends who’ve visited Paris recently tell me French people there are rude. My answer is: rudeness also happens in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other big American cities and other busy cities, where visitors may also experience nasty citizens.

Hotel employees, waiters, cabbies and other service people must work long hours to make a living in highly competitive and crowded cities. Anger happens. However, in my travels throughout France, I’ve seen very few incidents of intentional rudeness from locals.