People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

This is exactly what was predicted as the result of corporate surveillance and targeted ads. They are part of schemes to extract more revenue from you. Another example is the rising premium for health insurance. But people apparently had "nothing to hide"!

100% against everything being monitored and data sold like it is….. but part of me wishes there was a way to work towards getting bad drivers off of the roads.

This is not the way to do that as the insurance companies only have one goal and that is to raise profits.

But when you stand on any random street corner and 30-60 % of every driver driving by is looking down at their cell phone, it is very scary.

People don’t use turn signals, speed through residential neighborhoods, change lanes in the middle of intersections, it’s insane. We need to make our world less car reliant, it’s unacceptable.

OK but why is my state mandated minimum insurance nearly $90 a month for a Toyota Prius that I only drive like 30 miles per week?

My liability only plan was $55 in 2018.

I'm over 30 years old with no tickets or accidents on my record.

Maybe the whole data farming thing is being used as an excuse also, but this is bullshit all up and down.

My vehicle is not trackable but my insurance tripled in two years so there is more going on than data harvesting

Is it too much to ask for a car that doesn't spy on me, is reasonably comfortable, is efficient, and maybe has a few extra "smart" features to help me not run into other people? I guess my bike will do for now.

So they'll lower rates if the data shows safe driving right? Right?

Can’t wait till all the genealogy companies like 23 & me start selling our genetic information to insurance companies.

In a civilized world, heads would roll over this.

It used to be that when someone used the phrase "in a civilized world", it was intended to move you back into it. Nowadays it just feels like wild gesticulating at an impossible state...

Makes me glad my, going on 17 year old Toyota will likely run forever and is as dumb as a box of rocks regarding this stuff.

us insurance always sounded like a scam.

moreso now.

Mine tried to get me to plug in a monitoring device into our cars' OBD-II ports after we signed up. I said Hell Naw and returned them shits to the sender. They said my rates would go up if I didn't use it and they didn't really change.

Next car I get will have to be neutered of such spyware, since they're apparently building it all in now. Current car just had a box I unplugged to disable the 3G cellular network connectivity and the car works just fine without it.

I just don't understand how car manufacturers can do this. We need better privacy laws. Also, why is it a game of always protesting and backlash just to keep our basic rights? Smh

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maybe there is a way to disable the mobile module in these vehicles?

Here's a "funny" story. Back in the day I was working (IT) for insurance companies. I've pitched an idea to one of the larges companies about a device connected to an OBD port to track a driver's habits and adjust premiums based on that. I was turned down, but I heard from an unofficial source that the company was already testing such a device. That was 15 years ago.

Wait, is this why my insurance is suddenly so low? Does it go both ways? People always call me a "boring" driver. As far as I'm concerned, driving on the open road shouldn't be "fun", it should be taken seriously. There are places you can go to drive for fun at no one else's expense.

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