Why would it stop there? What's to stop the government from making a few laws and tapping into these devices as well and making it LAW to require you have them? They could share the costs with the insurance companies (which they are in bed with anyways).
Then these devices would not only determine your rates for insurance, they would also be sent into the government and you could be ticketed for speeding/dangerous driving based on the records, in addition to paying more. Not only that, these companies could SHARE information with other companies and collaborate on forcing people with some recorded incidents of speeding, etc. into higher risk categories making them pay outrageous rates, even if they don't have any traffic convictions.
The potential for abuse is there, and these companies (and the government) are typically unscrupulous.
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The landfill pit is already dug for them.
Why would it stop there? What's to stop the government from making a few laws and tapping into these devices as well and making it LAW to require you have them? They could share the costs with the insurance companies (which they are in bed with anyways).
Then these devices would not only determine your rates for insurance, they would also be sent into the government and you could be ticketed for speeding/dangerous driving based on the records, in addition to paying more. Not only that, these companies could SHARE information with other companies and collaborate on forcing people with some recorded incidents of speeding, etc. into higher risk categories making them pay outrageous rates, even if they don't have any traffic convictions.
The potential for abuse is there, and these companies (and the government) are typically unscrupulous.