GM now offers a car that narcs on you to insurance companies. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Insults are literally being added to injuries.
The latest example being what GM styles “Smart Driver” – which isn’t a “service,” either. It is embedded in new GM vehicles whether the owner (sic) wants it or not – and it collects data about the owner’s s driving, which is then sold to the insurance mafia, which adjusts what the owner (sic) is forced to pay, accordingly.
GM – and it’s not just GM – puts it this way:
“GM’s Smart Driver service is optional to customers. Customer benefits include learning more about their safe driving behaviors or vehicle performance that, with their consent, may be used to obtain insurance quotes. Customers can also unenroll from Smart Driver at any time.”
Italics added.
Malarky obvious, hopefully.
“Customer benefits?” Is that like “safe and effective”? It’s certainly worse than “the check’s in the mail” (and another one that doesn’t need repeating but which everyone already knows).
How does the customer benefit from having data about how he drives recorded and transmitted to the insurance mafia?. Oh! That’s right. The customer can “learn more” about “safe driving habits.” As if driving with the flow of traffic – which is almost always flowing faster than the speed limit – had anything to do with unsafe driving habits. The same goes for other driving habits the system is designed to take note of – such as what is styled-to-shame “aggressive” acceleration. Everyone does that, too. Because if they don’t, they’ll get hit by the car they just pulled out in front of.
