> The added insurance costs for luddites will price them out of the market.
What added insurance costs? It's not like adding self-driving cars to the road will make manual driving more dangerous.
No safety technology could make insuring self-driving cars any cheaper than free. Would free car insurance act as enough inducement to drive the fearful away from their steering wheels?
When people realize the self driving cars are better the damage claims from human accidents can go up. Right now if you kill a kid with your car you get 7 months in jail and your insurance company pays a $150,000 (these are real numbers from a 3 year old that I was really close to). If self driving cars are really that much better courts will start handing out much larger judgments.
What added insurance costs? It's not like adding self-driving cars to the road will make manual driving more dangerous.
No safety technology could make insuring self-driving cars any cheaper than free. Would free car insurance act as enough inducement to drive the fearful away from their steering wheels?