Bloomberg Businessweek took on the insurance issues surrounding driverless cars this week, asking "Do Self-Driving Cars Spell Doom for Auto Insurers?"
Their answer? Maybe.
"Human error accounts for 90 percent of road accidents, according to the International Organization for Road Accident Prevention, and our collective failure rate helps the auto insurance industry rake in a cool $157 billion in premiums each year," the story reads. "So if self-driving cars eliminate all those driver mistakes, the business of insuring vehicles will necessarily change as well."
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