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Self-driving trucks will lower the mortality rate and the insurance premiums as well as increase the utilisation of assets - trucks and storage.
by lukasm 10y ago
Self-driving trucks will lower the mortality rate and the insurance premiums as well as increase the utilisation of assets - trucks and storage.
- ethanbond 10y agoFunctional self-driving trucks* That's the crux of the issue. People need to stop acting like we have self-driving cars. We don't. Once we do (a few years out, at least), THEN our governments will start figuring out how to deal with it. And by "governments," the plural is important. Remember that every single jurisdiction that a driverless car goes through must approve of them. And for long haul truckers? That's hundreds of jurisdictions for any given route.
- falcolas 10y agoI don't think the insurance will go down all that much; the cost of a lost $50,000 load of bananas and $150,000 worth of truck/trailer is not going to change because of even a 50% reduction in crashes. Plus, why would insurance companies actively work to lower their profits? ;)