GM OnStar to Monitor Driving Habits for Possible Insurance Discounts

Gm Onstar Button On Rearview Mirror JpegMotortrend – by Karla Sanchez

GM has announced a new driver assessment program through its subscription-based OnStar service that can offer feedback on how you drive. Think you don’t need someone watching over your shoulder and critiquing your every move behind the wheel? Then maybe the program’s potential insurance discount through Progressive will persuade you.

OnStar customers will soon be able to enroll in the new driver assessment program, which is exactly what it sounds like. Those who partake in the service will have their driving performance evaluated for a total of 90 days, and after completing the evaluation period, they’ll receive a detailed driving assessment.  

The assessment will reportedly reveal important driving metrics, which will also be compared against those of other anonymous enrolled customers. Based on the individual assessment characteristics, OnStar will be able to provide driving tips.

If the driver gives the OK, the assessment will be sent to Progressive Insurance, and depending on driver performance, customers may be able to receive a discount with the insurance company. GM also makes it a point to say that driver data will only be shared if the customer gives consent.

Giving customers a detailed assessment of their driving habits is aimed to help people better understand how they drive and how they can become a better driver. An OnStar representative told us there is also no penalty for Progressive customers who receive a less-than-desirable score. Onstar Logo

“Providing drivers with feedback benefits consumers by making them more aware of their driving behavior, saving them money and keeping the roads safer,” said Dave Pratt, general manager of usage-based insurance at Progressive, in a release.

The assessment program is expected to be available for all 2016 GM models, most 2015 models, and some 2013 and 2014 models starting this summer. Source: GM

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5 thoughts on “GM OnStar to Monitor Driving Habits for Possible Insurance Discounts

  1. Oh yes, your friendly, neighborhood insurance agent looking out for your best interests. Sons of bitches will find any way they can to deny any claim against their bottom line, and they’ll tell you “your in good hands” or that we’re “on your side”. Well I say f#ck Allstate and f#ck Nationwide and, especially, f#ck Flo from Progressive with a hopped up gorilla! Insurance companies should be shot and left dead where they lay. These f#cking shysters are almost as bad as the f#cking lawyers who represent their interests. Shit hits the fan scenario, good luck with your claim to nothing!

    1. Abstract non-tangible services is what these parasites create and concentrate on for profit and control. Education, art, psychology, psychiatry, interest rates and banking, stock markets and investments etc.

      They manufacture the “want” or “need” for them and form support groups to rate and recognize their own organizations headed by their ilk to view them as the best and brightest in their abstract artificial field, thus beginning the cycle of an industry dominated by the parasite.

      This is why I believe it is in their DNA because most Americans do not possess such a predatory mindset and it seems they leave the womb with this being the only purpose in life!

  2. They’re dangling the reward of lower insurance rates in front of your face so you’ll agree to be constantly spied upon.

    Nothing’s going to happen to your insurance rates except for the predictable, endless rise, but they’ll listen to every conversation that transpires in your car, and use computer programs to scan them for any hint of disloyalty to King Obama. (or King of the week, whomever he might be)

    (if you have “OnStar”, they can already hear every conversation in your car, whether you pay for the service or not)

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