The motor insurance industry is warning that vehicles should not be marketed as autonomous until they are capable of completely taking over under almost all conditions. This opens a new chapter in the saga for insurance companies, which until now have cautiously welcomed autonomous driving with concerns largely confined to disruption of their traditional model and how policies should evolve to reflect changing liabilities. The paper has come from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) arguing that some advanced vehicles are marketed misleadingly as self-driving, when at this stage they only offer partial autonomy. For that reason the association is urging auto manufacturers to drop terms such as “autopilot”, “propilot” and “autonomous” itself from marketing literature and promotion, because they…