Re:Car Insurers Find Tracking Devices Are a Tough Sell
by neogodless on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @12:43PM
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Similar to my own experience. For the first 6 months, I got a 10% discount just for having it. But immediately after that, the discount dropped to just 1% - regardless of how little I exceeded 80 mph (never) and how little I hard braked (once or twice a week at first, once or twice a month once I got a feel for where it detected braking) - it didn't matter. I was "grade A" for those categories, but C- for distance. Anything over 7500 miles per year basically removed any chance for a discount.
Now that I live much closer to my job, I could probably qualify, but I also found a little stressful to always be worrying about maybe triggering the "hard braking."
In that case he seems to be getting a snow job from an insurance company that is using the the idea of quantified self/living to seize a larger part of its customers' lives, likely without really paying them back anything for the intrusion.