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Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by tk75x on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:30PM (#19424328)
It sounds like the one that Progressive used. They would monitor the time of day you drove, your speed, and acceleration/braking. So if you drove fast, late at night, and braked hard constantly, you would not qualify for a discount but at least they didn't raise your rates. And the best (worst?) part was that you only had to have the thing in your car for 1-3 months, I forget which, but when you were done you sent it back and were free to go back to your original driving style.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by Scoundreller on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:53PM (#19424539)
We could raise gas taxes instead of letting insurance companies capture the profit from punishing inefficient drivers (speeding, not looking ahead and braking instead of easing off accelerator).