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Big Brother is already watching. A friend with a VW received a phone call from the service department of the nearest VW dealer; 80 miles away in Great Falls. This is not the dealer he purchased from and he has never visited them. The dealership called him to say that he had tire on his car with low air pressure. Think about this. Not only is the car reporting such data and VW monitoring it , they also have a system of knowing where the car is located and referred the action to the nearest dealer.
State Farm will give me a discount if I share this info with them. That's not going to happen
It starts out as a simple "you can get a discount if ..." It will eventually progress to "We will insure you only if you ..." As soon as several major insurers, say State Farm, Allstate, Farmers, Progressive, USAA and Geico all take this position we might have little choice but to go along. Hopefully by then I will be too old to drive anymore.
my wife's new Buick Encore has an actual "Black Box" in it. I had to sign a form that acknowledged that I had been told it was there. The dealership actually said that it was for monitoring driving and for warranty management. I also watched a YouYube video about a guy who bought a Corvette C7 from one of those online dealers that the buyer had to return because even though the car had less than 5000 miles, the warranty was revoked because of racetrack driving. Yes, it had a Black Box. He found out about it when he took it in to have something minor fixed, and found the warranty would not cover it. It will eventually be pretty much everything I am sure. Face it, if I was building cars or bikes, I wouldn't want to fix things that were the fault of the driver, not the vehicle... But I still don't like being watched!
I have a bad feeling it will not be long before they can get the info without my permission.
Hope nobody concerned about all this “tracking” are on Facebook
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So far all of the vehicles I own are old enough they don't know **** about me.
edit: After reading this article I'm reminded of the author's son. It was on a trip to the CroMag rally I stopped in Montreal to see friends and was invited to a track day at St. Eustache (sp?) to use my buddy's KTM 640 on the track with a session on his Ducati 900. Back to Costa's 12 year old son...he was riding too and several times he blew by me on the outside of corners on the 125 he was riding, laughing and waving every time. Oh the joy I felt the one time I got him on the staights and blew by him like he was standing still! I forget his name but he was a good kid and was a good rider on the track even at 12 years old.
Now it is in every thing! We all know and love our smart phones....and all the "free" apps we down load and use.....most are watching, reporting and selling our data.
Also your home "smart"devices are great miners and sellers of our info. Alexa, Amazon Primefire sticks, your ring door bell, any smart appliance.
A friend told me he was using his voice controlled Amazon Prime Fire stick to search for some movie he wanted with an old Mercedes in it. The next day he started getting lots of Pop Up adds from the local Mercedes dealer!!
As a Borough Council member, I can offer the "warped" perspective that this information could allow a municipality or state to eliminate all the manpower associated with traffic speed control. At the state level, that's a savings of at least $200,000 per patrol officer when you consider salary, benefits and supporting equipment cost.
So, my prediction is...........the insurance company is going to get the info because we can't afford police officers for traffic control