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Insurance companies will love insuring these cars because they will be involved in far fewer accidents, and will have a complete log of exactly what happened so
by enneff 11y ago
Insurance companies will love insuring these cars because they will be involved in far fewer accidents, and will have a complete log of exactly what happened so it will be easy to assign blame.
- teraflop 11y agoNot just that, but human drivers have a lot of "hidden variables" affecting their accident risk -- level of experience, state of mind, aggressiveness, familiarity with local roads, and so on. Insurance companies have to try to account for all of that when calculating premiums, based on a limited number of data points. With autonomous vehicles, two cars of the same model running the same software should be more or less interchangeable. So even leaving aside the number of accidents that occur, the level of uncertainty should be a lot lower.
- VikingCoder 11y agoA competing viewpoint: Insurance companies will hate insuring these cars because the first human fatality is absolutely going to court, and it'll be a complete circus. The media will go apeshit.