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My sister had an insurance tracker fitted in her car, and it was awful - it kept sending her emails saying "we detected you going 70mph on a 20mph road, if this
by gambiting 3y ago
My sister had an insurance tracker fitted in her car, and it was awful - it kept sending her emails saying "we detected you going 70mph on a 20mph road, if this keeps happening we'll cancel your insurance altogether" - we'd contact them asking for proof, they would send us a GPS trace and of course she was driving on the motorway going legal 70mph going ABOVE a 20mph street but the system was dumb enough to just check "what's the speed limit at those exact coordinates" and issued automatic warning letter. It would also frequently show her negative driver scores for "smoothness" of driving every time she would go over a speedbump. Absolute travesty of a system.
- seper8 3y agoWhat in the actual FUCK am I reading 1984 aint got nothing on that insurance company. Do you remember the name so we can all collectively try to avoid it?
- gambiting 3y agoIt was just Volkswagen insurance(I think it was really underwritten by AXA?). She got a deal where any new VW got a year of free insurance, but because she was under 25 the tracker was mandatory, and getting insurance elsewhere would have been super expensive at her age, so financially it made a lot of sense, but after the first year we paid extra specifically so she could have insurance without the tracker.
- johnnymorgan 3y agoThat's called extortion....
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y agoWelcome to driving in 2023.
- simondotau 3y agoNo it isn't. They were not forced to buy that car or avail themselves of that insurance offer.