Insurance News - Thursday, December 5, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, December 5, 2013:

• An academic feels self-driving cars may not be such a big deal because it is hard or near impossible for the technology to detect pedestrians.
• Saskatchewan to introduce tougher impaired driving penalties including longer suspensions, vehicle impoundments and mandatory ignition interlock requirements.
• This is a very good update on no-fault auto insurance in the U.S.
• Volvo ramping up its efforts to put self-driving cars on the road with the first autonomous vehicles as early as 2014.  They will run a pilot with 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads.
• Ratio of auto insurance expenditure to income is down in the U.S. but does that mean insurance is affordable?