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In the race to place driverless cars on public roads, technology has shot past regulations, and one area that has been lagging in the debate is insurance for these vehicles.
Two weeks ago, Singapore became the first country in the world to have on-demand driverless taxis, the first time such taxis are being tested on public roads as well. The service is part of a trial by start-up nuTonomy, founded by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who are now based in Singapore.
This came even as Uber said it would try out a fleet of driverless cars in Pittsburgh, in the United States, by August-end.
But with the advent of driverless vehicles, the issue of insurance will eventually come to the fore.
The debate on how insurance players will ascribe liability and how users will be affected will hinge on the balance of responsibility between the driver, the software and the hardware.
After a Google self-driving car collided with a bus in California on Feb 14, the tech giant said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."
The incident was said to be perhaps the first crash due to a self-driving vehicle's fault.
Another incident involved a Tesla Model S sedan which had the autopilot mode engaged. It crashed into a tractor trailer in Florida on May 7, killing its driver.
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In the race to place driverless cars on public roads, technology has shot past regulations, and one area that has been lagging in the debate is insurance for these vehicles.
Two weeks ago, Singapore became the first country in the world to have on-demand driverless taxis, the first time such taxis are being tested on public roads as well. The service is part of a trial by start-up nuTonomy, founded by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who are now based in Singapore.
This came even as Uber said it would try out a fleet of driverless cars in Pittsburgh, in the United States, by August-end.
But with the advent of driverless vehicles, the issue of insurance will eventually come to the fore.
The debate on how insurance players will ascribe liability and how users will be affected will hinge on the balance of responsibility between the driver, the software and the hardware.
After a Google self-driving car collided with a bus in California on Feb 14, the tech giant said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."
The incident was said to be perhaps the first crash due to a self-driving vehicle's fault.
Another incident involved a Tesla Model S sedan which had the autopilot mode engaged. It crashed into a tractor trailer in Florida on May 7, killing its driver.
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