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Originally Posted by mhughett
The "hard braking" event is also frustrating. If you are driving along at normal speeds at or below the speed limit and the light turns yellow but in time for you to stop, you will get a braking event if you stop for it. Seems counter intuitive as the alternative is to go through an intersection when the light is turning red. This is supposed to measure safe driving habits, right?
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I went through Progressive's similar 'Snapshot' program and the hard braking even was insanely touchy. Like you barely touched the brakes and it would set it off. And like you said, stopping for a yellow light was a sure fire way for it to send 1-4 seperate events for some reason. God that thing hated me. Luckily the way progressive does it is they send you the device, and after your first month they give you an 'initial' discount, then after 6 months they give you your 'permenant' one. The first one they send me was defective and wasn't uploading info to them correctly so I got 30% off for my first 6 months. After the 6 months though I only got 3% off because I apparently didn't run enough yellow/red lights for them.