Connected Services on Limited only

[2020BRZtS]

Originally Posted by soundman98

yay! another person that lol's when their insurance agent calls about 'we can lower your rate, just plug this thingie into your cars OBD port to send data back to the mothership that blindly assigns pre-determined invisible metrics to your account!'

My insurance agent told me that it only records your 60-0 times and for anyone over 35 with multiline coverage it's not worth it. It does make a big difference for drivers under 25.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS

My insurance agent told me that it only records your 60-0 times and for anyone over 35 with multiline coverage it's not worth it. It does make a big difference for drivers under 25.

i think it depends on the company. the units themselves are very much more capable than just that. and given what we know about big corporations and big data, i think it's easy to surmise that they tend to take the approach of "rather have it an not need it, then need it and not have it". i was told that it also ranks g-forces applied while turning in some models. they apparently grab your location, time of day. they don't specifically mention speed, but it would be easy for them to get that metric at least 2 different methods with the onboard equipment..

not much fuss has been made by people with technical ability, most just seem to avoid it. the closest i know of in terms of articles on these are from 2008 and 2014. the comments in the 2nd link really get into the specifics of the capabilities of the dongle, including at least 1 person that worked with the chipset on a regular basis.

https://hackaday.com/2008/06/28/prog...rate-hackable/

https://hackaday.com/2014/12/14/hack...ember-14-2014/