notbob wrote:
On 2012-08-03, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
I repeat, most? You're going to need some proof for such a wild
assertion.
Screw the "assertion". The real issue is, what else will that AEB
system be doing. You can bet yer ass it will also be an Event Data
Recorder (EDR) that will be recording yer driving history, like how
fast you were going when you hit the brakes, etc. And who do you
think is behind this? The insurance companies, so they can use yer
own car's event data against you should you be in an accident in which
they might have to settle. In short, yer own car will be ratting you
out to the insurance companies. Most new cars already include one or
more EDRs in yer car, specially if you have ABS brakes. You think
it's not gonna get worse? This AEB thing is jes another pretense to
get even more sophisticated EDR mechanisms into yer car. Believe
that!
I think you put the cart before the horse.
Auto makers put the EDR's in cars for their own purposes, not because such
was legislated and certainly not at the behest of the insurance companies.
It was the trial/plaintiff legal community that glommed on to the EDR data.
As for EDR's being a tool of the insurance companies, I suspect that an EDR
helps an insurance company about as often as it hurts. In a collision, for
example, a State Farm policy holder may be at fault when he hits an Allstate
policy holder. In the next accident, the blame is reversed. In the big
picture, the contents of an EDR is proabably a wash as far as insurance
goes.