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Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« on: December 25, 2019, 07:04:27 PM »
So now it's apparently unfair to be grouped by actuaries based on how good of a driver your sample set is.

Apparently it would be okay to offer discounts to (the article example) the teachers union, which would cover good and bad drivers in the union. However, if you wanted to give a discount to the occupation "astrophysicist" because statistics showed them to be very safe drivers, you would be discriminating.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-may-limit-using-jobs-education-for-auto-insurance-rates-discounts/
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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2019, 07:10:01 PM »
Let's just get of math altogether.

If it saves just one person/being from having their/its feelings hurt it's worth it.

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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2019, 09:57:03 PM »
Let's just get of math altogether.


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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2019, 10:13:35 PM »
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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2019, 03:10:20 AM »
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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2019, 12:37:38 PM »
Weird that this is a problem- the worst drivers usually don't have insurance.
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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2019, 10:12:03 PM »
Here in Michigan they have been using your credit score to set rates.
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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2019, 07:08:48 AM »
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"Here in Michigan they have been using your credit score to set rates."

But what if you've never had to borrow money?

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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2019, 01:56:10 PM »
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"Here in Michigan they have been using your credit score to set rates."

But what if you've never had to borrow money?

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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2019, 06:08:26 PM »
Here in Michigan they have been using your credit score to set rates.

New Jersey as well. For several companies its weighted more heavily than your driving record. I think it's geico where it's about 75% of what determines your rate.

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Re: Good Drivers are Wealthy Racists
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2019, 05:43:20 AM »
That article seems to feel that if the delta between higher and lower cost groups is eliminated by law, then everyone will be offered the lower price rates.  One of the idiots even talks about how giving other people a discount "cost some people with lower incomes or fewer education credentials hundreds of dollars a year."

I suspect it's much more likely that the discounts are eliminated, and everyone just pays the higher rates.  I wonder who will be "costing those poor people hundreds a year" then?