Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013

Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• exanime@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These apps are so bad they have recorded people “hard braking” when they are home watching TV (just check the Play store for any of them and read the reviews)… there is no way this isn’t ripe for abuse

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  • Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised at all if they just randomly select a few customers every once in a while to raise their premiums.

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hide it on a bus

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• csm10495@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kind of sounds like a landline

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  • Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You must have one crazy landline if it lets you install apps on it.

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    • ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reality is stranger than fiction www.communityphone.org/…/smart-landline-phone

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      • Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ha those are indeed some crazy landlines! That’s really funny.

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    • hayes_@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t everyone’s phone also their refrigerator?

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      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I got rid of mine because I kept mixing up the receiver and the ice dispenser

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think these companies enforce compliance by hiding behind the fact that insurance fraud is a felony most places.

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d have to prove malice first

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well most of the suggestions in this thread constitute malice.

      I think it’d be pretty easy to argue that something is fishy when the phone that’s supposed to be tracking your driving wasn’t with you on the date of your accident and hasn’t moved since you started your policy.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m waiting for an app that feeds their app fake data on that burner phone.

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• isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao you’re giving me ideas

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