Your Smartphone and the Mafia, by Eric Peters

You can get a phone app that will allow you to narc on yourself. Get ’em while they last, operators are standing by. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

A convergence is coming. It is already here.

It is no mere coincidence that EVs have so much in common with smartphones in that both are excellent devices for controlling your driving by monitoring it – and charging you for it. (Double entendre intended.)

No “dongle” required.

The “dongle’ being as old-fashioned as an eight track tape player. The insurance mafia no longer needs you to plug its device into your device. All it needs is for you to carry around your device – while you drive your device.

The mob uses your phone to monitor how you drive your device. And makes adjustments to what it demands you pay the mob for the harms you’ve not caused on the pretext that the way you drive suggests an “increased” risk that you might cause harm. Never mind whether you never do.

The object is to make sure you pay – as much as possible.

In the past, it was possible to minimize what the mob made you pay by not giving the mob the pretext it needed to make you pay more. If you were a good driver – not in the legalistic sense; rather, in the sense that you never filed claims nor had them filed against you – and avoided getting caught not obeying traffic laws that generally have nothing to do with good driving – then you were reluctantly considered to be a “good driver” by the mob and paid less rather than more.

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2 responses to “Your Smartphone and the Mafia, by Eric Peters

  1. Colonel Kilgore Trout

    Stupidphone is dingle as in berry.

    The hive is doom as in very.

    The Jonestown Kool-Aid LARP is hairy.

    But they ain’t scary.

    Eco friendly lithium powered battery?

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  2. Neo is the One

    Listening to Charles Bukowski the King of Poets 90 minutes in Hell.

    Love the cars going by in the background.

    Alarm klaxons sound, dark sedan with tinted windows pulls up in the night.

    No thought for you!

    Bukowski’s still here with the shades pulled down on a sunny afternoon, are you still with us?

    This one is called…An Action Afternoon.

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