The California Department of Insurance (DOI) is considering regulations that would enable insurance prices to depend on the precise number of miles a car is driven in a given billing period. But in implementing these "Pay As You Drive" regulations, the DOI appears poised to empower insurance companies to require customers' cars to be outfitted with "black-box" devices that could transmit back to the insurance companies all sorts of data about car motion (acceleration, braking, and so forth) as well as driver behavior (steering and seat-belt wearing).
Although DOI has retreated from its prior position that these devices should track your location – a definite improvement – it's still true that every car already has a reliable, tamper-resistant device that verifies actual mileage: an odometer.
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Is there ANYTHING that California doesn't want the government getting involved in?
California has become a Police State within a larger Police State.
It is unbelievable that something like this is even considered. As an astute student of the criminal justice system, even I have more than one objection to this idea.
Radek M. Gadek, MCJ
Author of Criminal Justice Online Degree blog.
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