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When I tried this a few years ago, the unit beeped when it sensed braking or lane changes it didn’t like. It beeped constantly in the course of normal New York
by crmd 3y ago
When I tried this a few years ago, the unit beeped when it sensed braking or lane changes it didn’t like. It beeped constantly in the course of normal New York City defensive driving. I found myself running more than one red light to avoid the “hard braking” beep.
It completely eliminated any enjoyment of the new car I sacrificed to save up for.
After 3 months I was horrified to get an email with a list of time stamped infractions and an offer for a 15% reduction in my premium.
Yeah, no. I switched to Geico, cut my premium in half, and vowed never to willingly trade surveillance for an insurance discount.
- schultzie 3y agoI had the same experience. The beeline that Progressive's snapshot device did actively encouraged worse driving behavior in a city. I could see it being more beneficial in rural communities where there's less erratic driver behavior, but in a major US city it was doing me no favors.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoWe have similar devices on our vehicles at work. I can tell you that they don't work on Landrover Defenders, because they are reading about half way to "OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING" just sitting in the car park with the engine idling.
- LanceH 3y agoThey have a point. There is probably an expensive repaid coming on from sitting sitting in the car park idling.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoI'm not sure how you'd get them from the car park to moving down the road without switching the ignition on. Is there some trick to going from a switched-off stationary vehicle to 30mph without some ramping up in between?