{"id":3370,"date":"2015-08-14T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2022-12-23T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:57:29","slug":"why-the-insurance-industry-will-survive-with-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/why-the-insurance-industry-will-survive-with-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Insurance Industry will survive with Self-Driving Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-driving cars are coming, and in many ways, they\u2019re already here. Many people are asking: will there still be auto insurance<\/a> after self-driving cars become mainstream? Sure, you can\u2019t go a car dealership and buy a fully autonomous car just yet, but many vehicles already feature the same technology that will one day allow self-driving cars to take the pressure off of the driver. These technologies are often presented as \u201ccollision avoidance\u201d technology, or even \u201cassisted cruise control\u201d, but it\u2019s plain to see: our cars are driving themselves already, and soon, they might be able to assume complete control.<\/p>\n

If all goes well and technology continues to advance at this rate, self-driving cars will have a massive impact on the infrastructures of the world. There is, however, a fairly widespread misconception about self-driving cars: that they can\u2019t get into car accidents. While self-driving cars are statistically less likely to be directly responsible for a collision, the fact remains that not everyone will have a self-driving car, and not all of those self-driving cars will be in autonomous mode all of the time.<\/p>\n

Many have said that self-driving cars present a substantial threat to the automotive insurance industry, but that isn\u2019t the case. You\u2019ll find that, even in a world where self-driving cars are ubiquitous, there are still countless opportunities for human influence to cause damage to someone else\u2019s property on the road. And in that situation, you\u2019ll want liability insurance.<\/p>\n

Audi has spoken on the future of self-driving cars, and their plan going forward isn\u2019t to allow the vehicle\u2019s computer to assume complete control at all. Self-driving Audis of the future will likely feature more advanced versions of the self-driving assistance technologies found in current vehicles. If vehicles like this see more success than completely autonomous vehicles, a scenario made more likely by high prices and creeping legislation, there will still be moments of human negligence.<\/p>\n

Why? Because these technologies allow the driver to let their guard down, placing complete confidence in the vehicle\u2019s autonomous capabilities. The capabilities of autonomous systems are impressive, but they require a certain level of human involvement from touching the steering wheel periodically to engaging the systems themselves. Self-driving systems could even encourage overly tired or intoxicated drivers to take a chance behind the wheel under the assumption that the self-driving features will make up for their impairment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s inevitable that self-driving cars will soon break into the mainstream, but car insurance<\/a> will always provide essential peace of mind and financial assistance when things are at their worst. A self-driving car would likely be a massive investment in and of itself, so protect that investment with a personalized California auto insurance policy <\/a>from Cost U Less Direct. Call or click today for more information on our policies, and contact us for more information on choosing a policy that fits your lifestyle, budget, and needs. With a bright future of technological advancements coming to drivers everywhere, there\u2019s no better time to protect that future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Self-driving cars are coming, and in many ways, they\u2019re already here. Many people are asking: will there still be auto insurance after self-driving cars become mainstream? Sure, you can\u2019t go a car dealership and buy a fully autonomous car just yet, but many vehicles already feature the same technology that will one day allow self-driving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697,727,695],"tags":[385,548],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}