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‘It feels like a violation’: Atlanta driver’s ‘free’ app was collecting his data and feeding it to his insurer (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

With the exception of the mobility scooter bug, I'm not sure how much sympathy I can muster. People drive like dickheads. They do this everywhere; it gets you where you want to go faster and outside of the stray honk, there's typically no penalty. The result is a society where people are deathly afraid to bike and thus continue driving, exacerbating the problem. I don't see the problem as a handful of dangerous drivers, which in this case means dangerous beyond the backdrop of widespread dangerous driving that insurance companies have already factored into their rates, being found out before they kill somebody. I see the issue as almost other dangerous drivers getting away with driving dangerously until they kill somebody, and often beyond then.