> Does AAA have something to gain by requiring anyone to pay more insurance?
If their premiums are too low, they will lose money when insuring Tesla owners. According to AAA, their data shows that their premiums on Teslas were set too low, and need to be raised.
If costs to insure Tesla are not, in fact, higher, then other insurers could keep their prices lower. It will be interesting to see if other insurers follow suit.
It's an issue. In fact, long C++ compile times were supposedly one of the motivating factors of the Go language:
"That 2007 [Google build] took 45 minutes using a precursor distributed build system; today's version of the same program takes 27 minutes, but of course the program and its dependencies have grown in the interim ... The origin myth for Go states that it was during one of those 45 minute builds that Go was conceived."
If their premiums are too low, they will lose money when insuring Tesla owners. According to AAA, their data shows that their premiums on Teslas were set too low, and need to be raised.
If costs to insure Tesla are not, in fact, higher, then other insurers could keep their prices lower. It will be interesting to see if other insurers follow suit.