Discount!
Discount!
Discount!
And Monitoring!
Posted on 10/04/2011 3:04:05 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
CHICAGO — A few months ago, Saman Jayasekara was shopping online for cheaper car insurance when he came across a new product from Progressive Corp. that offered him the chance to save as much as 30 percent.
But there was a catch. He would have to install a device in his Hyundai Sonata that would monitor his driving habits, such as when he drove, miles driven and number of sudden stops. Progressive would analyze the data to determine whether he deserved a discount.
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Smells like tracking to me.
American Family offered the same program some months ago, subscribed out in days.
If it’s between you and your insurance company, that’s one thing. If the data is passed to the thief in chief, that’s another. Exact disposition of this data is like exact disposition of the data in your medical records. It should be none of the governments damn business, but we know that it’s already being shared.
Yeah, they've been advertising it for a while. And it is tracking. Progressive is run by a real Obama fan progressive. That's all one needs to know.
NWO
How long before this is mandated ! I have one car - a Subaru WRX Turbo and when I drive especially going onto the Interstate, I step on it good. I don’t plan on putting such a device on my car. Of course I can see devices coming out where it can feed false data to it.
Discount!
Discount!
Discount!
And Monitoring!
Remember, the company supports obama, and the name of the company is “progressive” (for a reason, no doubt). Tell them to shove their insurance, and their tracking device, where the sun doesn’t shine...
A friend of mine has had State Farm car insurance for decades, and has a discount for low mileage. This year for the first time ever, they asked for a written statement of how many miles she drives in a year.
for 30%,they can track me all they want to, I’ve got nothing to hide...
I'm sure they are. Undoubtedly they see all sorts of other "benefits" like being able to get a court to force State Farm to release GPS records, or other such data. And, just think of all the taxing options! So many juicy Big Brother possibilities how could anyone not celebrate this?!
Attach it to Granny’s old car - back and forth to church 2x a week and the grocery store once. take that flo.
.....apron.
Peter Lewis....He has donated more than $25M to ACLU and MoveOn, as verified by Snopes.
Perfect hair, every time...
BARF!
Nothing to hid I am sure, and damn near holier than thou.
“Smells like tracking to me.”
Totally, and note this sentence from the article:
“That has transportation officials and regulators excited by the potential social benefits of usage-based insurance, such as reduced congestion and pollution emissions.”
When transportation planners go to bed, they don’t need wives or girlfriends. Instead they have wet dreams of all the pleasure possible by installing transponders on every car, and then tolling people by what they drive, when they drive, where they drive (and who knows, maybe what party they belong to), from the minute they leave their driveway. They know that there’s a BOATLOAD of money that could be captured from drivers, roughly 10 times what we pay in gas tax, if a way could be figured out to do it. These tracking systems allow just that, as they can start off relatively cheap (maybe only twice as high as the gas tax, or 4 cents per mile), but then ratchet their way upward as the revenue starts being needed for public transportation options (since it will cost too much to drive). By the time they’re through, we’re looking at 10 cents per mile to go buy milk at 2 AM, 20 cents for the average cost, and $1.00 per mile should you drive when they don’t want you to (i.e., rush hour).
Too bad Governor Perry is up to his ears in tracking and mileage-based tolling. Just go to this link and search of Texas...we practically own the study (PDF). And I have no doubt that he would impose this on us as president, as Big Business LOVES IT, because it prices the little people off the roads and for them the money is a secondary consideration.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_w143.pdf
I live 3 miles from work, rarely go anywhere on a weekend, and drive like an old lady. They couldn’t pay me to take their insurance, though. They’re called Progressive for a reason. (BTW, there’s also a reason I drive like an old lady.)
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