Last week, we covered how Elon Musk has set his sights on dominating the rideshare industry with his army of robot-powered cars. Well, now his flagship company aims to disrupt the insurance industry as well. Musk said during a Tesla earnings call recently that the company plans to create its own insurance product and launch it within a month.
Read MoreTechnology and data have allowed insurers to be much more predictive and accurate when it comes to calculating risk and measuring trends. Usually this has to do with analyzing the behavior of people, but in a world where automation continues to play a bigger role in everyday life, even more questions have to be answered.
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