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Very well-stated. I work in a space that's adjacent to auto insurance pricing. There are a lot of factors in play here, but your 50 year estimate is pretty close to what's expected before we get the full effect. That effect is roughly an industry-wide 90% reduction in auto insurance premium, with about 20% of that premium moving over to the product liability space (which insures the producers of the autonomous technology). And, it will be a gradual decrease over time - slow for the first 5-10 years, then rapid for 10-20 years, then slow again. Broadly, the milestones are to first create a fully autonomous vehicle that's near 100% reliable, then to make it commercially viable, then to get the manufacturing costs low enough that it's broadly affordable, and then finally to turn over the entire fleet of cars that's out there. Much of the premium reduction will happen between years 5 and 20, but it will drag on for about 30 more due to the final two steps. It seems plausible that step 1 will happen in the next 1 to 4 years, but that won't instantly make all cars on the road self-driving by any means. Legislation can act to either speed this process up or slow it down, so the whole estimate is very squishy. The auto insurance industry is designed in such a way that it would be extremely difficult for an insurance company to hold on to the premium if losses are going down (both competition and regulation act to prevent it; profit margins are incredibly small on auto insurance for most companies - 2 to 5 percent maybe, and a surprising number operate at a loss half the time). Although the change will be slowish, it will likely kill a number of insurance companies, mostly small ones who will no longer have enough premium across which to spread their overhead costs, as well as slow-moving ones that don't take pre-emptive steps to adapt to the changing insurance landscape. It's actually a very hot topic at industry conventions; pretty much every auto insurer knows