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Anybody else had experience of these?
My 17yr old niece has just recently passed her test and bought herself a car, insured it etc which cost her a hell of a lot which shes been working/saving since shes been 14yr so fair play to her
Anyhow part of her £2000 insurance with Hastings is having a blackbox fitted, its placed on battery and runs all the time
So as i understood these are to prove you drive sensibly, within limits but i get a stressed out niece calling on friday saying she got an email from insurance will be cancelled within 7 days if score is not raised to 40 - so first annoyance is shes 17 ffs and they send an email like that
then I can see from app on her phone her score is low but doesnt show her breaking speed limits etc so i said ring them to get more info
They said to her
Drive between 6am-10pm (more traffic on roads more chance of accident?)
Accelerate in a higher gear (mechanical sympathy?)
Accelerate/Brake like youve a glass of water on dash (sometimes its necessary to get up to speed quickly like joining carriageways etc?)
All will lift your score, and therefore the reverse drops
But my point is, this defeats purpose imo as she is now driving around thinking about the blackbox score rather than trying to understand get more experience of road/traffic conditions.
And i also suspect that next year theyll use the data in an attempt to increase premium no matter what the score is
Anyone else had similar experiences?
My 17yr old niece has just recently passed her test and bought herself a car, insured it etc which cost her a hell of a lot which shes been working/saving since shes been 14yr so fair play to her
Anyhow part of her £2000 insurance with Hastings is having a blackbox fitted, its placed on battery and runs all the time
So as i understood these are to prove you drive sensibly, within limits but i get a stressed out niece calling on friday saying she got an email from insurance will be cancelled within 7 days if score is not raised to 40 - so first annoyance is shes 17 ffs and they send an email like that
then I can see from app on her phone her score is low but doesnt show her breaking speed limits etc so i said ring them to get more info
They said to her
Drive between 6am-10pm (more traffic on roads more chance of accident?)
Accelerate in a higher gear (mechanical sympathy?)
Accelerate/Brake like youve a glass of water on dash (sometimes its necessary to get up to speed quickly like joining carriageways etc?)
All will lift your score, and therefore the reverse drops
But my point is, this defeats purpose imo as she is now driving around thinking about the blackbox score rather than trying to understand get more experience of road/traffic conditions.
And i also suspect that next year theyll use the data in an attempt to increase premium no matter what the score is
Anyone else had similar experiences?