Re: I'm in charge of me
@DougS: "Luddites will get sorted by insurance costs for human driven cars going through the roof, once self driving cars have proven a superior safety record."
@I am the liquor: "How does that make sense?"
There are a couple influencing factors. First, as the number of people who are self driving goes down, so does the amount of money that insurance companies will be collecting as premiums. After all, the robots will be safer and people will expect that the cost of insuring robot drivers will be lower than insuring meat sacks.
Second, the cost of cars will go up as more tech is thrown in them. So insurance companies will have to squeeze the meat sacks more. Sure you might be the same driver you were but if the vehicles are more expensive and robot drivers are safer then by definition the amount of risk you represent increases - hence higher premiums.
Bear in mind that there are plenty of accidents that can occur when only 1 vehicle is in motion and if that 1 driver is a meat sack which is easily distractable then...
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