Drivers can save by letting Big Brother ride

[gone-ot]

...somehow, the word "kneeling" just didn't "fit" (ahem) with our PG-13 rated website(wink,wink).

[Thymeclock]

Originally Posted by t vago

Good for you. And I would be right in going to a different auto insurer who didn't rely on that specious "you're not hiding anything if you submit" argument.

Whaddya say we get rid of government mandated, auto liability insurance first, and then see how many are willing to sign up for the voluntary, electronic surveillance "discount"?

Besides that, risks have to be demonstrable. Just because somebody goes over 75 MPH, does not mean that that somebody is automagically a higher risk than the guy doing 65 MPH. Hell, if I did 65 MPH on certain interstates out west, I'd be at a higher risk for causing accidents, because I'd be travelling well below the speed limit.

You don't get it. "Risk" is defined by what insurance companies say it is. The "piper" gets to call the tune, not you. And the State Insurance Commission (of any state) always will approve what the insurance industry wants.

Would Big Brother Insurance Company be able to determine this? Probably not.

Hey, they just want to make money, like everyone else - but the 'mandated' part insures that their business will never slacken off much in any economy, due to required insurance being mandated by our Big Brother (read: GOVERNMENT).

Big Business is only the stepbrother of (and handmaiden to) the real Big Brother.

[gone-ot]

...GREED IS GREEDY.

...and the GOVT is too.

[nemo]

Originally Posted by bestclimb

your only paranoid if they are not out to get you.

Or

Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[redneck]

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TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police.


Click link


TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police | Crave | CNET UK

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[gone-ot]

...BIG BROTHER is WATCHING you, and you, and you, and you, and...

[tjts1]

Pretty much sums up this whole 'issue'.

[dcb]

Originally Posted by tjts1

Pretty much sums up this whole 'issue'.

self portrait?

[dcb]

Look TJ, if data is made available, it gets used in ways folks will not appreciate, that is exactly what happened in the story that redneck posted (police "profiting" from users gps subscriptions). You would have to be really naive to not realize that. I have seen it countless times myself.

If you are blind to this simple mechanism, then you are either a complete fool or your bonus depends upon getting people to believe you, or both.

[bestclimb]

Originally Posted by tjts1

Pretty much sums up this whole 'issue'.

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