> pay premiums. When you buy the self driving car, the manufacturer has to put a lifetime insurance on the car. It's baked in the retail price unless they deci

> pay premiums. When you buy the self driving car, the manufacturer has to put a lifetime insurance on the car. It's baked in the retail price unless they decide to rent you the right to use your own car (that wont be good press). So actually, you pay more for the insurance in the hidden fees. In that imaginary 25k there is: * The hardware $$ * The engineering (past, present, lifetime codebase maintenance) $$ * Recalls because the LiDAR turn out of miss important things $$$ * Maintaining the mapping data forever $$$ * The forever/lifetime insurance if the car kill someone $$$$$$ * That thing called profit margins $ (or no $ at all) * Buyback cost (because they really can't support it forever) $$ That is, of course, if they do the "right thing" and contractually agree never to choose to turn your car into a very large brick (agreed buyback if they decide to retire the tech). This assume a real self driving car, no steering or fallback. Selling high tech full self driving cars seems like madness. Lane tracking and "cheap" camera tricks with "the driver has to be alert all the time, if he dies then go blame his corpse" are the only way to turn a profit on driving assistance techs.