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Why? Insurance companies use detailed risk data. If they discover that letting you drive your own car is a much higher risk than an auto-drive, why should the

• jjordan 22d ago
  Yes, I definitely trust insurance companies to do the right thing here.
  • jedberg 22d ago
    Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them. We saw this before -- they used to charge people who lived in high crime areas more money. They had to stop because it turned out that those high crime areas also had a lot of poor people, so the government stepped in and stopped allowing pricing by zip code. But the insurance companies weren't wrong about the risk -- those customers cost them more. So instead they had to raise everyone's rates to account for the fact that they (rightly) could not discriminate. I suspect the same would happen here. That poorer people could not afford self driving, and they same anti-discrimination rules would apply.
    • tredre3 22d ago
      > Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them. If pricing risk was an exact science, you'd get the same quote from all providers (given similar coverage). Yet if you try that, you'll find that the quotes could vary as much as 2-3x. Therefore no, we shouldn't blindly trust "the algorithm".
• salawat 22d ago
  >Insurance companies aren't political -- they charge for whatever costs more. Insurance companies you are required to interact with by law are absolutely political.
  • jedberg 22d ago
    I meant they aren't political in their pricing. They don't charge less or more for something because it is considered liberal or conservative.