How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)

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3. I did the Progressive one "voluntarily"

to receive a discount on my premiums. An app on my phone tracked everything.

What pissed me off was what the app considered a “hard brake.” For example, it dinged me pulling into a coworker’s driveway. She lived in a 25mph area, which I always observed because the town is a known speed trap. And, hey: safety. The turn into her driveway was a weird, uphill left. You have to creep and glide into that SOB. Bottom line: there was no hard brake. I also got dinged, many times, for hard stops while gently inching forward in stopped traffic at a stop sign at the bottom of an exit ramp.🤨

Don’t even get me started on all the dings for touching my phone while simply skipping songs. Ugh.

Somehow, with my multitude of reprimands, it rated me as a B+ driver.
Alrighty, then.

Figured there was more to it than monitoring if you are a safe driver.