In pursuit of device drivers
Traditionally, a flirt pilot at high speed and difficult turns are a private matter.
Insurers have been kept in the dark, are not able to differentiate aggressive that blur the driver, unless the former leaves a fender or in the guardrail gets nabbed by a police officer.
An initiative to amend Progressive Insurance. The company is recruiting volunteers 15000 customers to install a gadget the size of a box of Tic-Tac, the collection of data on when and how they operate.
Based on the data of the detection device travel, the company can call the reports whether the customers are the driving force at high speeds, brakes, acceleration or aggressive, or spend more time in the night.
Trip is also false log mileage, which means gradually or an insurer with such a system would no longer on a driver’s own annual estimate of his journey.
Volunteers are available, $ 50 for participation in a six-month period will not see their tax rates affected by what tells Trip Sense progressive on it, “said company spokesman William Perry.
He said that the aids are researchers, the information used to determine how the devices could be used for the future.
While technology can be a runway pilot was good for a course of the decade, insurers treaded lightly on the shoulder.
Daniel Finnegan, President of Quality Planning Corp., San Francisco-based adviser to auto insurance of the economy, “said Progressive has been a pioneer in data recording vehicle.
Where is conducting this work remains uncertain.
“We simply do not know what the average person in their cars,” said Finnegan.
“We know some travel is risky. We know that 2 hours on Saturday … if bars leash, the accident rate is 200 times that Sunday morning.”
While researchers have provided extensive data show that driving fast, aggressive or late at night, blocking and says that insurers do not know is guilty, behaviour, until it is broken or ticket.
Recorders of data could be the link, the identification is on the road to 2 hours
More sophisticated systems can tell whether an insurer to a pilot 2 hours weaving, or if, with GPS systems, regardless of stop blowing if it signs or acceleration on local roads.
The next question may make a judgement on how to properly inform the public is ready to give up.
Finnegan said it already provides widespread resistance and stakeholder consultation on privacy.
For most motorists, Big Brother, as a passenger is not fully consider, in the short term. While the technology is available and relatively cheap, “said Finnegan widespread is not on the immediate horizon.
“My car is my Sacred Space,” said Albert Dolette, Corona and self-enthusiastic residents, was the participation of the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show last week. “As I drive between me and the accelerator.
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