Autonomous Trucks Could Reshape How We Think About Insurance

Those were some of the questions discussed during a panel discussion on insurance and autonomous trucks at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting. “It is something we are going to continue to look at.”All those questions make it tough for the insurance industry to figure out how they’re going to write insurance policies for autonomous trucks. Obviously, we don’t have that type of information for something as new as autonomous trucks. Dorfman said, “I think OEMs will need to start buying some product liability of their own.” But that doesn’t fit in with the current product liability mindset, he said. And should the minimum required liability insurance be different for fleets operating autonomous trucks?