Allstate Wants to Track Your Driving to Determine Your Car Insurance Rate

akbeemer said:

The future?

By law all vehicles are constructed with the ability to collect, store and report speed, acceleration, lateral G-force, braking and location.

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I don't think my vehicles have any of these. My newest vehicle was manufactured in 1998 my truck was manufactured in 1987. My car has just over 300,000 miles on it & my truck has about 125,000 miles on it & both should last me the rest of my life.

akbeemer said:

A friend has a VW Tiguan. He got a phone call from the service department of the VW dealership to alert him that he had a tire with very low air pressure.

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I wonder if the dashboard low tire pressure indicator was on?
OM

saddleman said:

I don't think my vehicles have any of these. My newest vehicle was manufactured in 1998 my truck was manufactured in 1987. My car has just over 300,000 miles on it & my truck has about 125,000 miles on it & both should last me the rest of my life.

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GM started installing black boxes in 1994.

Lee said:

GM started installing black boxes in 1994.

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My car is a 1998 VW I'm not sure if it has the snooping box or not.

As this bit of "telematics" or "telemetry" progresses, it seems we will end up with "cloud based" diagnostic needs. A lot of the large heavy equipment, especially from Germany, now requires an internet connection back to the factory for problems not readily apparent in the field.
It has been reported that in the case of an overload on one of the new cranes, a report is sent direct to the factory. The new cranes have a lot of problems that need to be analyzed by the factory so they can find a cure. It seems that technology is overrunning field experience.
OM

Technology which outstrips our ability to understand it will bring on more problems than we can imagine, except in a science fiction sense - which won't be fiction anymore.