On: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums

[kevin_thibedeau]

Sensors can't tell what is appropriate. Is a 1.5G acceleration automatically dangerous? Maybe it's necessary, given the circumstances. Circumstances that are never considered when the insurance company chooses an arbitrary number that conveniently boosts their revenue.

[ta17711771 → kevin_thibedeau]

That's correct.

Because they're not trying to reward you/punish someone else.

It's a risk mitigation tactic, despite what Progressive's commercials frame it as.