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wages) increased by 8 percent among personal injury claimants and by 4 percent among bodily injury claimants - The average automobile liability claim for property damage was $3,231. The average liability claim for bodily injury was $15,443 - The average collision claim was $3,144. The average comprehensive claim was $1,621 - Private insurers pay about half of all car accident costs, while individual crash victims pay 26 percent, and third parties pay 14 percent - The cost of medical care and productivity losses due to injuries from car accidents was more than $99 billion – nearly $500 for each licensed US driver But according to Alan Messer, one of the session moderators and CEO of InnovationShift, the autonomous solutions to solve these are going to come gradually in waves, starting with simple shuttles and Robotaxis. The task of developing an autonomous vehicle is increasingly a team effort of auto/ tier 1 firms and technology firms. "Even for the geographically limited Robotaxi market, OEMs have found it takes more to produce a solution that drives at least as good as a human. The result is that several of those programs' pilots for driverless have been postponed for the last year." Messer commented. "even when Robotaxi pilots go driverless, it will likely be years before we see them in most of the major cities." "It has been harder, slower, more costly than they originally thought," he added. To amplify the challenge, he cited two recent opposing studies by DriversEd.com and J.D. Power: - DriversEd.com found 67