The Software, without which it won’t operate, is only licensed by you.

[gstallons]

When we changed insurance companies we got these little toys too . HE  double hockey sticks NO . Not only do they get your driving habits , they can provide them to all other providers. 

 

[Pressureangle]

6 hours ago, Tomchri said:

Got a notice from my insurance company the other day, you can get a device in the car so they can follow your driving habit. Better rates if you behave. NO thank you. I rather pay more. What a bloody world. Quite a few of the buddies to, we are happy we grew up in a time with not a lot of restrictions.

Cheers Tom.

I did this with Progressive.
I installed the device in the car we didn't take on vacation lol
Saved about a third on the rate after that.

[gstallons]

Crafty !

[Lucky Phil]

9 hours ago, Tomchri said:

Got a notice from my insurance company the other day, you can get a device in the car so they can follow your driving habit. Better rates if you behave. NO thank you. I rather pay more. What a bloody world. Quite a few of the buddies to, we are happy we grew up in a time with not a lot of restrictions.

Cheers Tom.

Some US insurance companies won't insure your car without a separate tracker fitted. People have bought second hand cars and have battery drain issues and subsequently found a tracker wired into the system they were unaware of the previous owner was obliged to fit. Maybe the DD preppers and tin foil hat brigade aren't looking so silly now,lol.

[ScuRoo]

I like this YouTuber, who is an Englishman living in Australia and who is an engineer & a lawyer.

I cannot tell if he’s awake, even to the global climate boiling change nonsense. However, he is spot on about the impossibility of moving everybody to EVs.

Important to remember that the phrase "By 2030, you will own nothing and be happy"? Did you think that the global publicity for this, essentially code for the United Nations "Agenda 21" & their "Sustainable Development Goals", is a bluff? I don't.

[ScuRoo]

On 12/29/2024 at 7:29 AM, guzzler said:

Like many bike and car enthusiasts I enjoy riding and driving and actually get quite a lot of satisfaction from doing it well...

If I'm to be merely a passenger while some device controls everything then as much as I hate public transport maybe it'll be time to embrace it. Hopefully by this stage my sphere of movement will be quite limited..... 

No doubt that’s said tongue in cheek with an “I’ll be right Jack” attitude but it’s not a world I’d wish for my kids and potential grandies to live in

All these changes can conceivably be useful tools in the hands of a controlling totalitarian regime (there’s been plenty of those over the last hundred years so it is feasible)

I’m sick of all this effectively stripping away of freedoms and enjoyment of life and imposition of constant government intrusion in your face

Being a white privileged man I’m consciously misappropriating the cry, “I can’t breathe.. I can’t breathe.. I can’t breathe!”

But there you have it. The restrictions even apply to voicing an opinion now

As for me - I will not comply

[gstallons]

That little 666 device in your pocket tells "someone" EVERYTHING you are doing . It monitors your driving habits , speed , location 7/24 . Your preferences in ice cream , political propaganda , pornographic "research" , anything . Some entity is very interested in you and the population of the Earth .  

1984 came a long time ago.

[footgoose]

6 hours ago, gstallons said:

That little 666 device in your pocket tells "someone" EVERYTHING you are doing . It monitors your driving habits , speed , location 7/24 . Your preferences in ice cream , political propaganda , pornographic "research" , anything . Some entity is very interested in you and the population of the Earth .  

1984 came a long time ago.

Whatever one may think of him, Ed Snowden gives an interesting generalized breakdown of the personal information industry.

[ScuRoo]

19 hours ago, footgoose said:

Whatever one may think of him, Ed Snowden

If government isn’t telling the truth - anyone who spills the beans on government is in ‘hero’ territory up there with Julian Assange 👍😎