{"id":74255,"date":"2017-12-08T01:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/insurance-companies-are-now-offering-discounts-if-your-let-your-tesla-drive-itself"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:28","slug":"insurance-companies-are-now-offering-discounts-if-your-let-your-tesla-drive-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/insurance-companies-are-now-offering-discounts-if-your-let-your-tesla-drive-itself","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Companies Are Now Offering Discounts if Your Let Your Tesla Drive Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ms00nG9EDto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While accidents have happened, one of the most appealing things about autonomous vehicles is their capacity to make our roads a safer place. Now, insurance companies are starting to offer financial incentives to promote adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s largest automobile insurance company, Direct Line, has announced a 5 percent discount for customers who <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-tesla-autopilot-functions-are-coming-in-the-next-several-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activate Autopilot functionality<\/a> in their Tesla. It follows in the footsteps of Root, a startup that offers a similar promotion across nine states in the US.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/insurance-companies-offering-discounts-tesla-drive-itself\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/insurance-companies-offering-discounts-tesla-drive-itself\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While accidents have happened, one of the most appealing things about autonomous vehicles is their capacity to make our roads a safer place. Now, insurance companies are starting to offer financial incentives to promote adoption. Britain\u2019s largest automobile insurance company, Direct Line, has announced a 5 percent discount for customers who activate Autopilot functionality in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions\/74401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}