From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-04 03:59, AJL wrote:   
   > On 11/3/25 6:19 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-11-04 00:24, AJL wrote:   
   >>> These days perhaps I should worry more about my insurance than the cops.   
   >>>  From what I read modern cars are fully connected to the manufacturer   
   >>> and   
   >>> data (including speed and the local speed limit) are sometimes shared   
   >>> with   
   >>> insurance companies...   
   >>   
   >> At a job some years ago, a young colleague found the insurance as   
   >> novice driver was very expensive. He struck a deal by which the   
   >> insurance tracked him with a special GPS on the car, and based on what   
   >> roads he used, they charged. They consider driving on big cities more   
   >> dangerous, so staying out of those, which was easy for him, they   
   >> charged less. Win win. That could be 2010.   
   >   
   > Wow. My insurance company dictates my travels? Scary...   
      
   Well, the alternative is pay the way higher fee for travelling on the   
   nation capital city, even if you are hundreds KM away. As he was a   
   novice driver, he saved about half of the fee or more.   
      
   It is your choice :-)   
      
   >   
   >> Another twist. I understand new cars on the EU beep if you speed too   
   >> much for the road, tracking this with a GPS and a map. The next goal   
   >> will be that the car will refuse to speed up over the limit.   
   >   
   > Our Arizona legislature is just now thinking of a law that instead of   
   > revolking a serious violators drivers license the perpetrater would agree   
   > to have a governor installed on his car that would NOT allow him to go over   
   > the speed limit. Sounds dangerous to me. IMO those who don't go with the   
   > flow of traffic, above or below the speed limit, are the dangerous ones.   
   >   
   > Our Arizona speed law 28-701a is a reasonable and prudent law. The speed   
   > signs are just a guide. So going with the flow doesn't necessarily break   
   > the speed law if the flow is faster. And actually the speed signs get   
   > pretty close to the actual traffic because Phoenix periodically measures   
   > the traffic flow and resets the speed signs to match if needed. Also   
   > another incentive is that our stoplights are timed so going the speed limit   
   > often gets you all greens crossing town...   
      
   Seems sensible.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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