Have fun being broke down on the interstate without a cellphone and miles away from help. No one, not even most cops, pull over to help anyone as we all assume everyone has a cellphone.
More a matter of privacy.
On a recent insurance discussion with USAA (switched back from GEICO) they offered a discount on rates if I agreed to install and use their app every time I drove. It would monitor my speed, acceleration/braking, and other, undisclosed, parameters.
I truly don’t want to grant the ability to monitor me 100% of the time I am driving.
Not about being paranoid. It’s about having a right to privacy.
I had to consent to their monitoring. I declined consent.
Great question. No idea…if you agreed to that but got into an accident while your phone was at home and you got into an accident, what would happen? are you in breach of your contract?
Every company offers that. They would cancel my insurance after 5 miles I think. Also, besides privacy, what is data usage while doing it? I can’t see how that wouldn’t contribute to spike in data which in the end cost wise, doesn’t make sense.Great question. No idea…
I told my company this exact thing. So I have to bump up my data plan by 15 dollars a month in order to use their stupid app and save 15 dollars a month? Plus it’s harder on the phone’s battery.Every company offers that. They would cancel my insurance after 5 miles I think. Also, besides privacy, what is data usage while doing it? I can’t see how that wouldn’t contribute to spike in data which in the end cost wise, doesn’t make sense.
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I told my company this exact thing. So I have to bump up my data plan by 15 dollars a month in order to use their stupid app and save 15 dollars a month? Plus it’s harder on the phone’s battery.
Yeah makes me chuckle a little bit. I get some don't want a phone. I'm old enough where I still remember a time before cell phones, but the last 3 employers I've had all required that I have one and that they were able to reach me, so there is that. There are certainly days I wish I didn't have one. Neither of my vehicles even have infotainment. I could be biased though since I work in IT, I find that having a disconnect from technology is good. Like anything else, it is how you use it.Too many "old man yells at cloud" comments here. I guess many of them don't need to keep in communication of friends/family/customers/dispatch while on the road.
And if you have to standby or wait for any moment in time what you gonna do? Twiddle your thumbs? Listen to AM talk radio?
You'll need to have their app running in the background on your phone in order to use the phones sensors (GPS, accelerometer, etc.) to track you.
I could be biased though since I work in IT, I find that having a disconnect from technology is good. Like anything else, it is how you use it.
We are the sum of the choices we make... if one does not like the tracking, one need not sign up for the insurance... no one is being forced to do anything.
Unless you have the type were you can remove the battery...it isn't really 'turned off' in the traditional sense. That power button isn't a real contact switch. It is like modern cars...unless you remove the battery, something is still active...My phone is always turned off while I drive.
Unless you have the type were you can remove the battery...it isn't really 'turned off' in the traditional sense. That power button isn't a real contact switch. It is like modern cars...unless you remove the battery, something is still active...
I wrote, "do not sign up for THE insurance" - (emphasis added).One doesn’t need to sign up for insurance in order to register and operate a vehicle? That’s news to me.
Your little analogy would work if there was no government and an army of police officers forcing everyone to have auto insurance.
There is no choice in the matter of having insurance or not.
I wrote, "do not sign up for THE insurance" - (emphasis added).
I intended this to mean THE (singular) insurance from the company that required tracking.
If needed, one can purchase insurance from a company that does not require tracking, or choose to go without insurance at all, albeit with the attendant risks.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you **** well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P. J. O'Rourke