Comment by nemo44x
1 year ago
Sure they are. Speed is easy to detect for instance. Someone driving 50mpg in a 25mph school zone should have massive increases to their insurance as they present huge risk.
1 year ago
Sure they are. Speed is easy to detect for instance. Someone driving 50mpg in a 25mph school zone should have massive increases to their insurance as they present huge risk.
Cars don't know about school zones and the reported data lacks even the signal of "50 in a 25." It's just a boolean: speeding, true or false. I'm skeptical of the idea that 61 in a 60 zone should be considered as dangerous as 130 in a 25, for example.
Should the fine be the same regardless of whether it's five minutes after school let out out or 3AM on Christmas day?
It would be up to the insurer and how their models reflect and manage risk. The point being, individual insurers would be able to better price insurance based on discrete customer behavior.
Should cell providers sell customer data/metadata to car insurance providers? It, after all, in the best interest of the insurers.
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I'm curious how that would play out. Speeding is a risk, doing it in a school zone when classes are getting out is a bigger risk, but driving at 3AM is also a big risk.
Driving while tired is a risk, but that's not the same thing.
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