Tag: self driving car insurance

Auto insurance will be unrecognizable as self-driving cars flood US roads

Logan B.
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These automated vehicles will remove 90 percent of the risk associated with driving a car. Self-driving cars may still be at their very earliest uses in certain very specific locations, but the auto insurance industry is already bracing for them. After all, these vehicles will change the nature of the need for coverage. As it appears that a substantial amount of the risk from driving will shrink, insurers are bracing themselves. At the moment, the first wave of self-driving cars come with astronomical premiums. A recent Bloomberg report pointed to…

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Self-driving car insurance for electric vehicles lacking in the United Kingdom

Marc
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Axa claims that Great Britain may be lining up to miss out on driverless vehicle technology. A lack of appropriate infrastructure and a shortage of self-driving car insurance is setting up the United Kingdom to face serious challenges if it doesn’t want to get left behind with driverless electric cars, says the Axa insurance company. Autonomous vehicles are facing considerable barriers in the U.K. due to the lack of fast charging bays, among others. Drivers of electric cars are already facing struggles with the fact that there aren’t enough rapid…

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Self driving cars receiving technology upgrade to reduce winter auto insurance claims

G. Turner
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The driverless vehicles are being designed to be able to make their way safely along snowy roads. While self driving cars may be the direction the industry will be taking in the future, winter storms and snowy roads continue to be as much of a threat of auto insurance claims for those cars as the ones driven by people. Driverless vehicles currently operate best in cities with clearly marked streets and lanes. Though self driving cars have been performing quite well in their testing phases, they have been developed for…

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Warren Buffett’s insurance industry forecast might surprise you

Julie Campbell
Berkshire Insurance Unit - Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway

According to the head of Berkshire Hathaway, insurers should worry about self-driving cars, not climate change. At the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting last weekend, Warren Buffett shared his insurance industry forecast and brought up a number of trends and innovations that have been the topic of conversation among experts in this arena. The main point that has drawn the spotlight is that Buffett doesn’t feel climate change will harm the industry. According to the insurance industry forecast he shared, climate change shouldn’t be causing any pain to his business. This…

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Google self-driving car involved in yet another accident

Julie Campbell
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The vehicle was rear-ended by another driver that had supposedly been driving while distracted. It looks as though the Google self-driving car road tests are not being blessed with all that much luck, as yet another one has now been involved in a crash as it was rear ended by another vehicle while it had been stopped at a red light. Only weeks after being rear ended twice while being stopped at a light, it has now happened again. A few weeks ago, the Google self-driving car made a report…

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