No, not from a technical standpoint, like how much cornering is bad. I figured out the 7mph/sec braking threshold because they did give the numbers there. I didn't look in detail to see if there were any numbers on cornering (in parking lots, as I said) because I just looked at the total number of events and decided that was it and pulled the plug, as it were. On a followup phone call they gave me the phone number of the tech department of the nannybox maker. I'm thinking how best to approach that from a technical standpoint*. I.e., how did they arrive at those threshold levels? By putting the boxes in the cars of the proverbial little old ladies from Pasadena and recording
their driving habits?
On Sundays.
To church.
And how about slowing down on hills? There's a couple of mild hills around here where my cruise control won't hold the car back from 35 mph by mere compression from my tiny little engine, so I downshift to a lower gear instead of riding the brakes to allow it to control the speed. So there's a slight downshifting transmission braking action event at that point which I spotted by correlation with the time. And since it's downhill, if they have accelerometers in the box, that would make it look worse by adding the sine of the hill angle times gee to the braking deceleration.
See, another question for their tech department.
No kidding, on testing and correlating incidents like that, I think if you really kept off their "event" thresholds, you'd probably
cause accidents. I'm sure you've seen drivers like that.
Again, no kidding, I'm a pretty smooth driver and
most certainly not aggressive, and I don't want those "aggressive driving" dings on anybody's records anywhere.
I didn't think the customer service rep at the insurance company would know anything about the tech details of the box, like about the 7mph/sec braking threshold and she didn't, so she gave me the nannybox company's tech number.
My paranoia neurons are thinking that maybe they set the thresholds so low so the company can deny coverage in case of accident: "You had 17 'aggressive driving' incidents, so it must have been your fault" or some such. Look, I laugh at my own statement haha>
Yeah, way out there, but...
Terry
*Or I may just say pisonit and fugedaboudit.