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Auto insurers and carmakers must overcome corporate secrecy concerns and find a way to collaborate on data-sharing to facilitate the shift to higher levels of autonomous driving.
Generally, those experts feel that the existing auto insurance framework will be able to adapt to the deployment of AVs, which will shift the concept of liability from the driver to the vehicle’s manufacturer. But a few things have to happen first. You have a real standoff right now between the manufacturers and the insurers.
One of them is data-sharing.
“It’s really important,” said Karlyn Stanley, lead author of the Rand study. “Because insurers will tell you they need information about what sort of capabilities a vehicle had, especially as we progress with automation, so with any accident they can really determine liability. Who was at fault, or