Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said Monday the trend towards autonomous driving cars will hurt the auto insurance industry.
"Net it will be bad for the auto insurance industry over time if autonomous cars become a big part of the fleet," Buffett said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "It's very hard to tell who the winner will be" in autonomous driving.
Buffett appeared from Omaha, where his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate held a weekend of events around Saturday's annual shareholder meeting.
The billoinaire investor noted he doesn't know the timing of when autonomous driving technology will become pervasive.
Buffett and his longtime investing partner and vice chairman, Charlie Munger, spoke to the tens of thousands attendees on a wide range of topics from their in to Google and to bashing bitcoin as
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