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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • The thing even some reporters who’re alarmed at this story like: usage-based insurance which does actually let people pay less if they’re provably safe. Safe, and/or low mileage. They also want drivers to be alerted when aggressive driving is detected to be given a chance to improve.

    I think a program like that might be OK today for those who are very well informed about it. One day if every new car is web connected, I can imagine insurers trying to gouge anyone not in a driver monitoring program.

    Such a privacy & liberty nightmare has a small silver lining I almost refuse to acknowledge: in a full-on Big Brother driving world, with human-expert-equivalent analysis of behavior, raging murderous drivers would certainly find it harder to do 100+ MPH with their lights off entering an active crosswalk while passing a schoolbus in the rain.