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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by beat on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:30PM (#17912984)
Which sort of suggests something I was thinking earlier... that the autopilot features of Teslas are significantly reducing the number of accidents.
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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by tomatocracy on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:49PM (#17913112)
Or, much more likely, that the average person who buys a Mustang GT drives ina much more accident-prone (and a much more expensive accident-prone) manner than the type of person who buys a Tesla.

A very large (and the most variable) part of the actuarial cost of car insurance is third party liability, not the liability the insurer takes on for repairs to your own car or fire/theft.

The difference between insuring a 19-year old man and a 55-year old woman on the same car is huge.

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