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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by ryandrake on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:17PM (#12167664)
I'd expect it would be cheaper in the long run for those large companies to influence laws to move ticket liability over to their customers rather than take on the expense of fighting traffic tickets themselves.
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by seizethecheese on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:20PM (#12167685)
Possibly, but that's assuming no aspect of consumer choice in the survival of ride hailing systems. If customers had to worry about tickets, they would quickly migrate to a competitor which assumed liability.
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by pyre on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:46PM (#12168955)
The same way that competition ensures things like Net Neutrality because consumers vote with their wallets?
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by seizethecheese on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:03PM (#12169048)
Most people don't care about net neutrality. Most people will care about having to pay tickets in self-driving car fleets.
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