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Traditionally insurance policies focus on the vehicle and its users.

Even with fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) they will concentrate on the vehicles. However, liability may rest more with the automotive manufacturers than with an autonomous car, van or trucks users. What’s missing, says Tony Fish, chief executive of Digital20 and an artificial intelligence expert, is how policymakers, carmakers and insurers cover people outside of them in an accident, such as pedestrians and other road users.

He says there needs to be polarity in the thinking and that it’s not about a chicken-and-egg situation: “We can move away from the safety and protection of the driver, to super lightweight, highly energy-efficient vehicles that protect the public. Stop designing and building infrastructure to mimic what we have accepted, which was a poor idea at the start.”

Find out more about why autonomous vehicles need to protect their passengers last; read the complete article

Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive on 19th March 2021; and published on Urgent Communications on 21st March 2021.

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