The New Hi Tech Gear in a Car is why you Insurance keeps going up
 

Debated on CNN HD USA on UK TV

The tech gear is using your bad driving
as a way to increase your Insurance.


[New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill
breaks down what data the technology
in newer cars is sending to insurance companies
causing, premiums to skyrocket.]


https://edition.cnn.com/videos/busin...tv-ctm-vpx.cnn


Life In The City.

It's starting to bug me TBH, had to shell out over £200 to replace tyre pressure sensors and parking sensors pre-MOT this year because apparently they could have been a fail...

Previous car didn't even HAVE tyre pressure or parking sensors! So why do they need to be working on this one? :hmph:.

Yes
thats what they debated.


All in order to justify,
increasing your your bill.

Back in our day we were all perfectly capable of keeping an eye on our tires and reverse parking a car without it beeping at us amirite arista?

To be fair mine does still beep when you reverse park - it's just that it now does one loud beep and a little box with a message in it appears that says, "rear parking sensor malfunction". And yet we've still managed not to crash into any walls, it's a miracle.

The increase in computerization also favors the dealership when it comes to repairs. Our mechanic says it is very expensive to buy equipment to do what used to be simple jobs or even just to diagnose. So much so it makes it hard to justify offering at all or even stepping back in that business.

You have worse in the USA
as Smerconish Live debate informed the world.

In terms of electronics it's pot luck if your local mechanic can even deal with it - sometimes they'll just tell you to go to the brand dealership (who charge way more than any other independent mechanic) or you can go to a specialist. When we had a wiring issue we managed to find a guy who will come and do the work in your driveway (where possible) so that was a bonus but it is often pricier than a bog standard mechanical repair.

The other thing is that you have to get a full service every year these days, because if you don't alarms come on that your car hasn't been serviced, and you need a manufacturers gadget to reset it,

It's all a scam

Yes a expert said just that on Live CNN Saturday

Well yes but you can get dodgy ones off TikTok shop for a lot of cars :laugh:. The code readers themselves are legitimately quite handy to be fair.