As someone who lives in a country where the only reasonable way to get a reasonable price for car insurance is installing an app that monitors you constantly......... ...fuck this
Greg Price @ObscureBug
21 Aug 2020
Having your car automatically upload driving data so that insurance companies can “customise” premiums. What could possibly go wrong. theregister.com/2020/08/18/a…

Aug 25, 2020 · 1:56 AM UTC

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There’s so much bad driving behaviour that sensors do not measure
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The other thing: these apps make people drive fucking terribly to please the algorithm relying on a shitty accelerometer in your phone
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define reasonable 'cause there's factors involved with me having to pay $100+ (never had it before and making car payments) but I don't think it's unreasonable
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Under $300 a month for a 6 year old car
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All(?) 2015 or later GM cars can do this through onstar if you enroll in Smart Driver
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I have very intentionally avoided buying anything with OnStar in it
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Bout to be 2 new burners in my house
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the relationship is not reciprocal. Maybe would be better if drivers were rewarded with random and frequent kickbacks anonymously?
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Time to start pulling fuses
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Introducing the "Driving Miss Daisy" odb2 driving emulator in 3.. 2.. 1...
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