Re:Big Brotheresque App Kills Your Automotive Anonymity
by alex_c on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:22PM
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The other predictors may not feel fair, but they're much more difficult to abuse or misuse than this scheme.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who uses this app should probably have their insurance raised much more than any individual drivers who are reported.
Re:Big Brotheresque App Kills Your Automotive Anonymity
by ktsmith on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:23PM
(#2013487)
If another driver around you is breaking a law dial 911 if it's an emergency (drunken driving) or the non emergency number if it's small (littering). In the first case you should let the police deal with it and in the second you need to be able to positively identify the driver and be willing to show up in court. You can do this today and don't need to have an iphone app that bypasses legal channels and the the other drivers right to due process.
And compared to some of the predictors that insurance companies currently use (age, sex, income, marital status), number of complaints seems like a much better predictor to me.