Drivewise braking stats a crock?

[YELOSNK]

About two weeks ago I installed Allstate's Drivewise device. I figured, hey, I'm a good driver, my previous job of 7 years involved driving around patients with brain injuries from auto accidents, who you can imagine were quite sensitive to poor driving, and they never had anything but good things to say.

Yet in less than two weeks of this thing I have 4 "hard braking" and 2 "extreme braking" events. I can't recall a single damn one of 'em and all I've done in the car is drive to work and back. In hindsight I'm guessing this is because my commute to/from work primarily involves 55mph roads with numerous stoplights.

Anyone else have/used Drivewise and had frustrations with the braking?

 

[DHG1078]

I don't have any experience, but I wouldn't put it past any of the companies to calibrate the devices to be overly sensitive so as to make it easier to jack up your rates.

 

[KingBlack]

my question is how does it know you didnt do any extreme breaking to avoid an accident?

it cant....

 

[thomas91169]

my question is how does it know you didnt do any extreme breaking to avoid an accident?

it cant....

It would likely then assume you are an inattentive driver if you have multiple hard stops within a short distance.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

Weird, the progressive snapshot one beeps at you based on how hard you break. My wife tried it, it didn't take a lot to get he first warning beep

 

[ford fanatic]

I had one through Safeco a few years back for about 6 months, it was pretty dead on. I knew when I was getting dinged with a violation because I knew that I hit brakes hard.

One thing I didn't like was that I was getting dinged for "late night driving" and I was coming home after midnight from work...it assumed I was out partying I guess?

My favorite was when I got my ranger stuck in the snow and I had about 100 "fast accelerations" which sent my record of events into fail mode lol.

 

[bdcardinal]

I still want someone to put one of these on a car at a HPDE.

 

[03Sssnake]

I still want someone to put one of these on a car at a HPDE.

Lmfao :beer:

 

[bdcardinal]

Also more than a few times we have had people come with with one of these installed and more than a few trouble codes that disappear when the device is unplugged.

 

[GT Premi]

...my previous job of 7 years involved driving around patients with brain injuries from auto accidents, who you can imagine were quite sensitive to poor driving, and they never had anything but good things to say.

...

Maybe they had memory gaps from the brain injuries and the additional scrambling from the hard braking. oke:

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

I had one through Safeco a few years back for about 6 months, it was pretty dead on. I knew when I was getting dinged with a violation because I knew that I hit brakes hard.

One thing I didn't like was that I was getting dinged for "late night driving" and I was coming home after midnight from work...it assumed I was out partying I guess?

My favorite was when I got my ranger stuck in the snow and I had about 100 "fast accelerations" which sent my record of events into fail mode lol.

lol.

my wife got a decent discount from using it but she got dinged for her super early am commute.

 

[ford fanatic]

lol.

my wife got a decent discount from using it but she got dinged for her super early am commute.

We saved about $1K a year by me doing this. Pain in the ass, but worth it in the long run.

 

[2001GTTT]

Nothing you do with Drivewise will jack up your rates, you simply lose a certain discount % that you wouldn't otherwise get without drivewise. Here you go.

Discount

Get 3 percent* of your auto insurance premium just for participating

Cash Rewards
•Earn up to 15 percent** of your premium after just 50 trips and every six months thereafter, based on safe driving
•Redeem cash rewards: 1.Get a check
2.Apply a policy credit, or
3.Shop at Allstate Rewards***


Allstate Rewards points
•Get 10,000 points just for getting started
•Continually earn hundreds of points for driving safely
•Redeem points for savings on brand-name merchandise, gift cards and local offers

*Exception NJ: 5% Drivewise discount immediately applied, with 3% Drivewise discount applied at renewal
** Exception WA: Up to 19% performance cash rewards
*** Exception WA: Performance cash rewards default to issuance of a check; customer can also choose to apply as policy credit

this is all new as of a few weeks ago. Minimum of 3%, maximum of 15%.

 

[Pribilof]

I would never put one of these things in any car I owned. Your data is worth significantly more than the discount you could receive.

 

[Riptide]

I run the app.

I have the same bitches the op does. It is too sensitive on braking events. My experience is if you are running 5mph over the limit (like practically everybody else does) and you get caught by a yellow the fact you were going just a little faster than expected combined with that little bit of extra braking effort associated with stopping for the red, causes it to ding you for hard braking. It's dumb.

 

[Spudz]

I asked if I could just put the application on only my daily driver (Van), and the reply was no, all your vehicles. So that killed the idea for me. No way something like this would touch the GT500.

 

[KingBlack]

I would never put one of these things in any car I owned. Your data is worth significantly more than the discount you could receive.

 

[HooperWest]

Not sure why anyone in their right mind, would put this kind of device on their car to be monitored for the stipend of savings offered by these douches.

Just another coerced erosion of privacy, by one of the most unsavory sectors there is, the Insurance Sector.
One thing you can be sure of, is the Insurance Sector is lobbying GOV hard to make sure these Soviet style monitoring devices are made mandatory.

The whole concept of being monitored by your INS. Co, in real time, is absurd.

 

[ford fanatic]

I would never put one of these things in any car I owned. Your data is worth significantly more than the discount you could receive.

Not sure why anyone in their right mind, would put this kind of device on their car to be monitored for the stipend of savings offered by these douches.

Just another coerced erosion of privacy, by one of the most unsavory sectors there is, the Insurance Sector.
One thing you can be sure of, is the Insurance Sector is lobbying GOV hard to make sure these Soviet style monitoring devices are made mandatory.

The whole concept of being monitored by your INS. Co, in real time, is absurd.

You guys have matching tin foil hats...

 

[Iamchris]

You guys have matching tin foil hats...

Add me to the tinfoil hat club then. This is outrageous.