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Lemonade Autonomous Car Insurance (With Tesla FSD Discount)

by KellyCriterion on 1/30/2026, 3:50:15 PM

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/

Comments

by: jasoncartwright

If it autonomous or self-driving then why is the person in the car paying for the insurance? Surely if it's Tesla making the decisions, they need the insurance?

1/30/2026, 5:31:04 PM


by: sabareesh

Tesla have their own Insurance product which is already very competitive compared to other providers. Not sure if lemonade can beat them . Tesla's insurance product has similar objective in place already where it rewards self driving over manual driving.

1/30/2026, 5:27:05 PM


by: cebert

I own a Model Y with hardware version 4. FSD prevented my from getting in an accident with a drunk driver. It reacted much faster to the situation than I could have. Ever since, I’m sold that in a lot of circumstances, machines can drive better than humans.

1/30/2026, 5:33:11 PM


by: t1234s

What happens if you have FSD turned off and like to drive fast on public roads. Will they see this telemetry and raise your rates?

1/30/2026, 5:41:08 PM


by: 1970-01-01

A 50% discount is pretty damning empirical evidence for FSD being better at driving your Tesla than you are.

1/30/2026, 5:38:56 PM


by: rebelde

99/month is more than I have been willing to pay for FSD, but if it lowers my insurance by 200/month, I could be convinced.

1/30/2026, 6:12:07 PM


by: FrankWilhoit

One's first thought is that they ought to be running away from underwriting this as fast as they can go. But then one realizes that it is all profit -- they need never pay a claim, because in accidents involving autonomous vehicles, it will never be possible to establish fault; and then one sees that the primary purpose of most automations is to obscure responsibility.

1/30/2026, 4:18:12 PM


by: xnx

Marketing stunt

1/30/2026, 5:43:26 PM


by: theturtle

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1/30/2026, 5:42:52 PM