UK Insurers Want Right to Collect Accident Data Before They Agree to Provide Cover for Driverless Cars

A committee of MPs, which has been hearing evidence from experts on autonomous vehicles, has been told by a senior figure in the insurance industry they would need to be given the right to collect “collision data” from driverless cars before they were prepared to insure them on Britain’s roads.
The committee was also told that in future it will probably be cars that will be insured, rather than the drivers.
Mark Shepherd, head of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI) told the House of Commons Transport Committee they would need to be able to access the “collision data” stored on autonomous vehicles so they could properly assess insurance claims….