Driverless Cars: Insurers Cannot be Asleep at the Wheel
The in-built chauffeur comes in the form of a rotating LIDAR laser taking 1.3 million recordings per second, and it’s a better driver than you.
.. In the UK 23% of all car insurance claims result from parking incidents of which 71% occur during reversing. A switch to driverless cars could largely eliminate these costs.
.. Volvo has aspirationally declared that by 2020 no-one will die in one of its cars – a claim which will hinge on the robustness of Volvo’s technology.
.. As Henry Ford is attributed to saying: “If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”.