If that’s directed to me, I’d guess it’s because they spend more time on the road
and log more miles so they have higher insurance rates.
But I may have misunderstood the rates thing above that. I assumed we were
talking about accident rates, which for AVs is compared on number of incidents per miles driven . Are we talking accident rates or insurance rates ?
If we are talking about waymo insurance, best I can tell is they are self insuring with up to $5million to passengers. Please correct if that’s wrong.
Sounds more like a political decision; but, personally, I do have doubts about how waymo addresses the well publicized “edge cases” of the vehicle mishaps.
every new software update version should be treated like a new human getting a
license. It’s needs to pass a federally run AV
driving center test that can throw multiple edge case scenarios at the machine.
That would have a negative effect of possibly slowing down AV adoption
Not a very rosey picture on cyber cab program with departure of program
manager.
The Cybercab has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no fallback. If the self-driving software doesn’t work, the vehicle literally cannot be driven. Tesla changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving” in September 2025, dropping its promise of unsupervised autonomy altogether. The next-gen AI5 chip won’t be available until mid-2027, meaning the Cybercab will launch on AI4 hardware, the same hardware that hasn’t achieved unsupervised autonomy in millions of existing Tesla vehicles.
When Tesla claimed to launch “unsupervised” Robotaxi rides in January, they vanished within a week and to this day, the program is limited to a small section of the Robotaxi service area in Austin with heavy use of teleoperation.
