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I highly doubt that
Edit: I was tired and I misworded what I meant.
MAYBE less wrecks are reported but we've seen reports out of major metropolitan areas about how these things are absolute menaces, honking at all hours of the night to try to park themselves, causing wrecks, just stopping in the middle of the road etc.
Less property damage isn't the whole story here, these things suck.
Swiss Re is one of the world's largest insurance companies - do you think they usually lie about such things?
It's important to understand logic, biases and how to evaluate information sources to avoid conspiracy theory thinking.
This. It's important to remember that this community is hosted on Futurology. The goal of this instance is to explore future technologies and ideas and we can't do that objectively if we're led by our biases. As humans, we have always hated being surpassed. When someone invented the pulley, there were masses of people that claimed to be better, but reality is cruel. If an insurance company is vouching for technology that without a doubt is causing them to pay out regularly, then they're being objective. Driverless tech is inevitable, but it won't be as common place as to make you feel comfortable about job losses, etc, for a while.
For those of you new to Autonomous Vehicles or Futurology, welcome. There's genuinely some fantastic people here and incredibly high quality posts. I'm biased, but I feel this instance is incredibly underrated.