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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by aembleton on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:10AM (#29428397)
Or they'll start selling insurance themselves. With that data they can undercut the rest of the market.
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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by mint2 on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:17AM (#29431649)
They may and I’ve heard they’ve tried before, but insurance is a highly different industry outside their core, and they will at least have to partner with an insurance carrier if they don’t want to write other mfgs for which they have zero data access. Otherwise Having 3 different insurance companies because one has different car brands would be an awful customer experience and pricing driver risk would get double billed
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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by ilikepi on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:37AM (#29428537)
Insurance is bundled with Volvo's subscription service offered on some models.

https://www.volvocars.com/us/care-by-volvo/

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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by hnburnsy on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:32AM (#29428516)
CA and TX...

https://www.tesla.com/insurance

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