Your poll question is wrong and completely ignores the main (but glossed-over) problem: this is actually enforced submission to full time surveillance. Data will be reviewed by some algorithm designed by a bureaucrat with little real-world driving experience and will decide if you’ve violated some rule long after the fact. Needed to accelerate hard back in June when someone you’re overtaking suddenly floors it while you’re stuck in the passing lane? You’re now a street racer, so there’s an increase in your premium. Need to do an emergency stop because some idiot dressed in black decides to jaywalk without looking on a rainy night back in September? Computer says you’re driving too fast for conditions so there’s another premium hike.
This blatantly Orwellian technology will be forced upon us through vastly inflated premiums for anyone refusing it. You’ll simply be priced out of driving. This same pricing model will then be used to force everyone into autonomous vehicles. And then the social engineering behind it all will finally be so obvious even the most willingly blinkered in society will see it.
Pat Getty - 6 years ago
great idea
W - 6 years ago
If that app does what it says it will do than passengers wont be able to use their phone either if the car is in motion.
If people can Police themselves not to text and drive then they don't need an app. If they are not responsible enough to put their phone down while driving than a "volunteer based" app is a useless idea.
This app proposal makes about as much sense as putting breathalyzer ignitions into every single car just to make sure no one is drinking and driving.
The more you treat people like kid's the more child like they will become.
Hank Wesselius - 6 years ago
My I Phone already does this It comes with it. It will do it automatically.
Your poll question is wrong and completely ignores the main (but glossed-over) problem: this is actually enforced submission to full time surveillance. Data will be reviewed by some algorithm designed by a bureaucrat with little real-world driving experience and will decide if you’ve violated some rule long after the fact. Needed to accelerate hard back in June when someone you’re overtaking suddenly floors it while you’re stuck in the passing lane? You’re now a street racer, so there’s an increase in your premium. Need to do an emergency stop because some idiot dressed in black decides to jaywalk without looking on a rainy night back in September? Computer says you’re driving too fast for conditions so there’s another premium hike.
This blatantly Orwellian technology will be forced upon us through vastly inflated premiums for anyone refusing it. You’ll simply be priced out of driving. This same pricing model will then be used to force everyone into autonomous vehicles. And then the social engineering behind it all will finally be so obvious even the most willingly blinkered in society will see it.
great idea
If that app does what it says it will do than passengers wont be able to use their phone either if the car is in motion.
If people can Police themselves not to text and drive then they don't need an app. If they are not responsible enough to put their phone down while driving than a "volunteer based" app is a useless idea.
This app proposal makes about as much sense as putting breathalyzer ignitions into every single car just to make sure no one is drinking and driving.
The more you treat people like kid's the more child like they will become.
My I Phone already does this It comes with it. It will do it automatically.