Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 1/7/2025 8:51 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> writes:

On 2025-01-07 02:41:19 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:

On 1/6/2025 10:36 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

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Manually driving a car will become a rare skill, and insurance
policies will either carry expensive riders, or simply not cover
it.

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Perhaps for a while, but after a decade or so manually-driven cars will
be theftproof because the kids stealing cars won't know how to drive.
This will have the effect of reducing insurance costs on some vehicles in
some locations.

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You have a point on theft, but I was thinking more of liability - if
self-driving cars have far fewer accidents than manually driven ones,
the insurance companies will charge an arm and a leg if you insist
on taking control yourself.
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pt

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Insurance companies will *ALWAYS* charge an arm and a leg for
everything and anything, and then pay out as little as they can get
away with when you make a claim ... that's how they operate and how
they make masses of money for the greedy scum who own, run and have
shares in them. They couldn't care less about the actual customer. It's
really no betetr than a legalised scam.  :-(

 State Farm used to send me a dividend check every year when they
returned excess annual auto premium dollars.

USAA does that when reserves exceed a certain amount, so it's not every year. They're a mutual insurance company. I also get a senior bonus cause I've been a member so long.