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Good point on vigilantism, but I think it's more than that. This whole scheme smacks of grade school tattle-tailing with the worst of everything about red-light
by artmageddon 16y ago
Good point on vigilantism, but I think it's more than that. This whole scheme smacks of grade school tattle-tailing with the worst of everything about red-light cameras. You can't face your accuser, and there's no frazzled teacher who you can tell your side of the story to defend yourself with.
It's a seriously flawed system and I hope no insurance companies adopt it.
- bryanlarsen 16y agoYes, but school ground bullies don't kill thousands of people per year, unlike bad drivers. 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.
- alex_c 16y agoThe 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.
- ktsmith 16y agoIf 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.