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Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates (www.carscoops.com)
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Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Welp, here goes any chance I'm buying a Toyota as a next car

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    recorded “hard braking” event

    This has always confused me. We're incentivizing hoping the vehicle slows down enough when someone cuts you off...?

    I can understand recording extreme acceleration, but deceleration to not hit something being "bad" is strange

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think it's about frequency. If you break hard because other drivers are shit, you'll do so at a rate comparable to others. If you break hard more frequently, then you are probably the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    It at least wasn't when they first implemented it (when you plugged it into your OBD2 port for a "discount" on insurance). Any time you braked over some threshold, it would beep at you

    Riding with a friend who had one, he'd always get way too close to other cars when slowing down because he didn't want to brake too hard

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    • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    All carmakers are doing that, not just Toyota. If someone posts a similar report about China's BYD you are whatabouted to death, but if it is about a non-Chinese carmaker, there are no whataboutisms.

    Is the data collection good or bad now? Should we have digital sovereignty in Europe and other democracies or just import ChEaP cHiNeSe CaRs?

    [Edit typo.]

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