Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?"

Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 12, 2009 @08:44PM from the no-voyeurs-here dept.

ramen99 writes "Our new car insurance company offered us discounts for our teenage driver if we agree to install a 'drive-cam' that records driving habits and wirelessly transmits video footage to a 'neutral driving coach' for evaluation and comment. While this might be great to monitor a new teen driver, it will also monitor other adult drivers. The insurance company claims that they would never use any information obtained to consider changes in insurance rates, but that really sounds unbelievable. Would you give up your privacy to save some dough? Installation is free, and the camera mounts just under the rear-view mirror. Something seems fishy about this..." Especially when, according to a British insurance firm, computer engineers are most likely to crash (sent in by antdude).

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Re:Private Car Cameras by haruharaharu · 2009-09-13 08:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Most people understand that CSI is TV and not real, and most people are what juries are made up of.
[citation needed] Lately, there have been a handful of articles written bemoaning the fact that juries do demand CSI style evidence in order to convict.

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Re:Training is only part of the problem... by haruharaharu · 2009-09-13 08:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

âsIf the driver decides they can beat the train, how many emergency workers will it take to pry the dead teenagers from the car?"
One guy with a shopvac?

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