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heathrow83829yesterday at 8:06 PM4 repliesview on HN

this is misleading because they're not comparing apples to apples.

the insurance companies are looking into all the details I'm sure to be able price the risk accordingly. Lemonade is putting their money where their mouth is and it's pricing FSD miles at 1/2 the rate of manned driving. that's because FSD gets 1/2 the number accidents per mile.


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sempron64yesterday at 10:37 PM

I think the discrepancy here is that almost all these crashes would not have resulted in an insurance claim, e.g. backing into a pole at 1 mph -- this is not enough damage to report for an average driver.

That said, really bad numbers for an autonomous system which is supposed to be way better than humans.

Rebelgeckoyesterday at 9:13 PM

Is Tesla insuring their robotaxis thru lemonade?

mullingitoveryesterday at 9:16 PM

> that's because FSD gets 1/2 the number accidents per mile.

I call bullshit and I bet Tesla is quietly paying Lemonade.

FSD is primarily used on highways, and the accident rate on highways is significantly lower per mile which results in FSD appearing to have a lower accident rate per mile.

Meanwhile Musk has a trillion dollars riding on them hitting 10 million FSD subscribers[1], so (past behavior being the best predictor of future behavior) he's obviously going to be committing whatever chicanery is required for him to get that money.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-elon-musk-1-trillion-1647...

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2OEH8eoCRo0yesterday at 8:35 PM

> insurance companies

If it's so good then why doesnt Tesla eat the liability?