Big Brother Insurance?

[lydy]

So, Progressive, which is currently my car insurance company, offers a discount if I put a dingus in my car that assesses how safely I drive.  I guess it looks at things like speed, vigorous braking, and probably tracks my every move?  Does anyone have any experience with these things?  Anybody have any opinions?  

On the being tracked issue, well, I do carry my phone everywhere, so Der Google already knows where I work, even though I never told it and I have weird working hours.  Der Google probably knows anything said Progressive dingus could intuit, so my data she isn't safe, anyway. 

Comments

[calimac]

My reaction would be N-O-double O, nooo.

[lydy]

Yeah, that's my reaction, too. But is this, given my driving habits and my cell phone usage, reasonable, or is this an emotional response?

[green_knight]

Entirely reasonable from where I'm sitting.

I would worry about the actual accuracy (the number of times PokemonGo told me that I'm going too fast when I'm standing still is legend), its not just about an accurate device, it's about how you process that data, and I don't trust programmers that much.

But beyond that, I worry about normalising of surveillance; it is NOT a reasonable request for your insurance company to know where you are taking your own car at any point in time. Just because someone else has that data does not mean you should give it out freely to everyone else.