Automated vehicles, data and fraud: Where better to hide a tree than a forest?

Automated vehicles will transform transportation and motor insurance. They will also fundamentally alter how fraudulent claims are constructed, investigated and challenged

MOTOR investigations have traditionally relied on witness accounts, engineering evidence, locus details, medical reports and claims forms. Automated vehicles will heap a colossal layer of data into this mix: sensors, cameras, telematics and software logs will give unprecedented insight into speed, braking, road conditions, vehicle status, driver intervention and the chain of causational events leading to a collision.