Your Car Is Spying on You. Here's Why It's Costing You - More Perfect Union

[TexasTowelie]

Your car is probably spying on you.

Car companies are collecting personal, social, and biometric data to pawn off to insurance companies.

We took a look into this shady practice and how this surveillance is jacking up your insurance costs.

[Prairie_Seagull]

1. Makes an excellent case for driving and older

not plugged in car. Oh wait, what about efficiency and the climate catastrophe.

The little guy is a punching bag.

[RainCaster]

2. that's messed up

So glad I have old cars that don't report anything.

[BobTheSubgenius]

3. The case I'm about to mention isn't as ominous as this scenario, but it's still pretty direct.

A friend of mine used to work at a tile store. Guy comes in to pick up his order after it finally arrived, and instructed my friend to load into his brand-spanking new megapickup. My friend demurred, citing how incredibly heavy a pallet of floor tiles is. Guy insisted, signed a waiver absolving the store, and drove away with his tiles.

A few hours later, he comes back for something, looking kind of ashen. Seems that Onstar ratted him out. He was driving home and the truck told him that he had greatly overloaded the truck, so much so that he had voided the warranty. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to come to light for a subsequent buyer of the truck, especially if this guy keeps it until the wty would have aged out anyway.