Technology

Insuring the Journey to An Autonomous Car Future

Technology is always evolving and that means there are new risks to be covered, including the journey towards truly autonomous cars. Here’s the word from HDI Global; From remote-controlled construction machinery in crisis areas to […]

News

Allianz Welcomes Progress on Automated Vehicles

Some comment from Allianz after the King’s Speech earlier today; Alexandra Wyard, underwriting director, Allianz Personal commented; “Allianz welcomes the announcement in the King’s Speech that automated vehicles will be addressed as part of the […]

News

Can Self Driving Cars Really Be Hacked? We Need Smarter Thinking

The UK government published its Automated Electric Vehicles Bill back in 2018, seeking to define blanket liability for all accidents to the manufacturers own insurers, rather than individual drivers. What happened to that idea? Well […]

Opinion

Semi-Autonomous Cars; Latest Safety, Data & Behavioural Advances

One of the big themes this February for Insurance Edge is the advance in tech in semi-autonomous cars and how it impacts on driver behaviour. It’s important for insurers, as changes in behaviour obviously have […]

Technology

Sensible 4 Self-Driving Vehicle Joins New Project Group

Sensible 4 are continuing to develop their self-driving shuttle vehicle, here’s the latest; A new 3-year Horizon Europe project EVENTS has started. Finnish automated driving technology company Sensible 4 is one of the 11 partners […]

Motor Insurance

3D Mapping Could Be The Code That Self-Driving Cars Are Looking For

As LiDAR advances and self-driving cars take a step nearer to reality, maybe this tech from Japan can act as a breakthrough? In ancient Egypt the Rosetta Stone translated key words from one language to […]

News

Thatcham Study Reveals Attitudes to Driverless Cars

A survey of under 2000 people is usually pretty useless, as small differences in answers can lead to exaggerated percentages and skewed conclusions. That’s why politicians love to carry out surveys of 2K or less, […]