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[Drewomega]

Read this on my email this morning! What next? Don't think it will work with the 2.6.

http://www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/aa-drivesafe-telematics-black-box-pay-how-you-drive-car-insurance?MediaCode=806&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=NL12March&utm_content=March

[MaxV6]

Big brother......    no rather way is one being fitted to my car !!

[Kevin Wood]

Big brother......    no rather way is one being fitted to my car !!

What he said. ^

[zirk]

Big brother......    no rather way is one being fitted to my car !!

What he said. ^

What the guy before him said. <<

[tigers_gonads]

Lets be honest here, You learn to pass a test.
You then learn to drive over the next few years / 100,000 miles ish.

If it would make the little scroats who have just passed there test and think they are driving gods, slow down and think while they are driving then I'm all for it 

Especially if it was monitored is some way so that if the scroats was naughty on a regular basis, there licence could be revoked 

You could also disconect the drivers airbag and seatbelt, and have nails sticking out of the steering wheel just to get the point accross 

[MaxV6]

that last bit i'm in favour of.....   for sure.... but the rest...... NO MORE NANNY STATE !!!     Orwellian nightmare!

[feeutfo]

...can break right off with that idea!

[PhilRich]

I take it that's a unanimous NO then?

[tigers_gonads]

I take it that's a unanimous NO then?

nup, fit them to to young kids cars for the first 3 years 

My lad is 16 and looking at our finances and how much it costs to insure a car at that age, he has no chance of geting his hands on a car 

Sadly, its the only way the price of insurance will ever come down for that age group 

[martin42]

also as it logs your speed,would the insurance company inform the police and produce this as evidence,if i had 1 fitted to my car it would be ripped out and left on a 12v battery in the garage lol.
i have a tracker system fitted to my van and that is the same,but as van is restricted to 68mph i cant speed 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The thin end of the wedge.

[Kevin Wood]

I recall a forum member trying a scheme like this a few years back and the knuckle dragger who they sent to fit the tracker managed to bu66er up the car's whole electrical system. Don't think it was ever the same again.

I'm uncomfortable with them tracking my every move, but not as much as I am them sending the local Kwik Fitup gibbon around to install the tracker.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

It's nowt new, Norwich Union had the system available when I passed my test, a few years ago >ahem< - turned out to be more expensive to get that with 0 miles of use than it was to get a regular policy...

 We have black boxes on our work vehicles, so it's nothing new to me. Would hate one on my private cars though.

[Kevin Wood]

It's nowt new, Norwich Union had the system available when I passed my test, a few years ago >ahem< - turned out to be more expensive to get that with 0 miles of use than it was to get a regular policy...

 We have black boxes on our work vehicles, so it's nothing new to me. Would hate one on my private cars though.

I think that's who the unfortunate forum member got his through. Struggling to remember who he was now.

[Gaffers]

Similar devices have been fitted to our fleet with a traffic light system.  It monitors speed, braking and cornering G.  Green ok, amber tone it down and red = reported.  Problem is the system is so shite you go around a roundabout at anything above a crawl and it goes red.  But drive at a steady 90 on the motorway and its goes green (or so I am told )

I don't see how they improve safety tbh.  But I am worried they will force us to install them by providing ruinous premiums if you do not. Worried?  You bet!