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There may not be an outright ban on driving your own car in the future but anything is possible. Insurance rates for non self-driving cars may become significan
by electriclove 7y ago
There may not be an outright ban on driving your own car in the future but anything is possible. Insurance rates for non self-driving cars may become significantly higher and thus less people drive their own car.
- derekp7 7y agoWhy would it be higher (than it is now)? I can see self driving being lower (comparatively), although current safety items such as anti lock brakes and collision avoidance doesn't seem to have much effect on rates. If half the cars are self driving, they may be better at avoiding an accident caused by a human driver, therefore human drivers get into fewer accidents, lowering their rates too. Remember it is all a numbers game.
- bluGill 7y agoBecause right now society accepts the risk. Right now we accept 35,000 deaths per year - in the US where a car was involved. If self driving cars are much better we will no longer accept that. Death in a car accident will start to be look at we look like death from the 737max: not acceptable risk. If you want to drive a car you will pay extremely high insurance to because if you hit my friend you are much more likely to be hit for a multi-million dollar judgement to pay for my loss of my friend.
- rootusrootus 7y agoInsurance should go down, not up. The risk of an accident better be higher now than it will be with self-driving cars ruling the roads.
- bluGill 7y agoSee my other reply, it could go up as we quit accepting death in a car accident as a fact of life.