Interesting. I wasn’t able to find that article in my search. Thanks for posting it. After reading through it I wonder if the modules they were using were provided by one of the car insurance companies. A number of them have programs where you can agree to have your driving habits tracked for an insurance discount, assuming you’re a good driver. I personally think it’s a terrible idea, I don’t care how big the discount is.Two mistakes I made in my comments:
1. This pilot wasn't 10 years ago it was in 2018.
2. I was in error when I said some participants received tickets (brain fart).
However, the fact that the pilot was collecting far more data points than just mileage (which is my main gripe) was reported by one of the participants.
She said that over the two weeks, not only was her mileage tracked, but her driving itself was scored. The score was based on braking, accelerating, speeding and going around corners. Frost was able to see exactly where and when she had gone over the speed limit, and for how long. The results shocked her. “I had 176 potential speeding violations … and that amounts to $20,240, in theory,” she said.
The full article: https://mynorthwest.com/946367/washington-road-usage-pilot-expert/
End of my comments on this, especially since you're now being snide, "Your speedometer tells you the speed you’re going too, is that big brother?"
My apologies, my comment was a bit snide, but the rest still stands. I don’t see the connection between this tracking thing and your own navigation app, that has to know your speed to function, and has to know the speed limit so it can display it to you.