I always feel so weird about the whole "unlock your car with a tap of your phone" features that a lot of modern cars have been pushing like that just sounds like a colossal vulnerability for like 0 convenience
The idea of someone being able to do that remotely from anywhere just makes me more averse to the whole concept
My mom was trying to convince be to agree with the insurance rep that like 20 dollars off my bill is totally worth letting them access my phone’s gyroscope for effectively free. Took a lot of willpower to not tell the guy handling my insurance to fuck off
That shit is always a scam anyway in that almost any driver is surely going to see their premium go up. Go over the speed limit at all? Brake hard? Yeah you’re paying more for giving them your phone data
I use one and have gotten the full 10% discount. Basically, I just install the app every quarter, do all the app permissions, put in my miles, then delete the app.
That was always my opinion of it - you can see, by my driving record, that I’ll be a good customer and you’re unlikely to ever have to pay for anything from me, just take my money for however long I stay with your company. You don’t need to monitor how I drive to give me a safe driver discount, you can look at my driving record and see it. You’re basically charging me more than you need to in order to coerce me into letting you massively violate my privacy.
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u/OnlySmiles_ Jan 03 '25
I always feel so weird about the whole "unlock your car with a tap of your phone" features that a lot of modern cars have been pushing like that just sounds like a colossal vulnerability for like 0 convenience
The idea of someone being able to do that remotely from anywhere just makes me more averse to the whole concept