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by aleph_minus_one 617 days ago
> When you have fender bender claims costing 20-40k USD to repair, how do you price that risk?

This is a solved problem. Ask any actuary who specializes in casualty insurance, or read a standard textbook about non-life insurance mathematics.

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Shush, I want to see a YC25 auto insurance startup that uses a pile of overheated video cards as a crystal ball to make underwriting decisions.
most people buying specialty casualty insurance also have MUCH deeper pockets than even most people buying a cyber truck
Not really, car insurance rates need to go through alot of state level validation in order to be approved.

Other models are not considered insurable by GEICO as well. So likely small pool of policyholders + exorbiant claim payments == not worth the headache