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Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance; time to plan

HBR offers three sources of alternative revenue to fill the decline in auto premiums.

  1. Cyber security. Insuring against cyber theft, ransomware, hacking, and the misuse of information related to automobiles can generate as much as $12 billion in annual premiums.  This can be even more critical to entire fleets, for example, if Amazon deploys fleets of autonomous vehicles to deliver packages.
  2. Product liability.  The real risk for manufacturers is the potential for failure through software bugs, memory overflow, and algorithm defects, and the resulting massive liability.  Insuring against this is a $2.5 billion annual opportunity.
  3. Infrastructure insurance.  Cloud server systems, signals, and other safeguards that will be put in place to protect riders and drivers offer an annual revenue potential of $500 million in premiums for property and casualty insurers
Our forecast shows that the drop in individual premiums – due both to decreased private ownership vehicles and to safer vehicles — will begin in 2026, as large numbers of autonomous vehicles begin to appear, and could be as much as a $25 billion loss for insurers by 2035.  This is significant for a roughly $200 billion market.

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auto insurance, autonomous vehicles, self driving cars