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My brother recently got one of these on his car, but he found he really didn't save anything by having it. Based simply on the amount of time driving during "pe
by plorg 11y ago
My brother recently got one of these on his car, but he found he really didn't save anything by having it. Based simply on the amount of time driving during "peak hours", namely rush hour/when everyone is leaving work, he lost any discount he was pitched by the insurance company. This isn't really anything he has any control over.
In that case he seems to be getting a snow job from an insurance company that is using the the idea of quantified self/living to seize a larger part of its customers' lives, likely without really paying them back anything for the intrusion.
- neogodless 11y agoSimilar to my own experience. For the first 6 months, I got a 10% discount just for having it. But immediately after that, the discount dropped to just 1% - regardless of how little I exceeded 80 mph (never) and how little I hard braked (once or twice a week at first, once or twice a month once I got a feel for where it detected braking) - it didn't matter. I was "grade A" for those categories, but C- for distance. Anything over 7500 miles per year basically removed any chance for a discount. Now that I live much closer to my job, I could probably qualify, but I also found a little stressful to always be worrying about maybe triggering the "hard braking."