NU GPS

I've just seen a PAYG thing for NU insurance. The idea is you pay £199
for the GPS unit and then PAYG for the mileage you do.

It's being offered to young drivers atm but could be released to others
in the future.

So not a bad idea if you're 17 and do 10 miles a year then and they're
definitely not going to monitor speeding with it...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Whinging Courier

This wants stamping on *hard* right now. It's a *total* invasion of
privacy. They'll dress it up as "customer service". but it's an invasion
of privacy, pure and simple.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

NU argue, of course, that it will help recovery in the event of theft
and locate a breakdown.

 

"It'll help fight terrorism"

 

Quite so.

I was stunned to find that our hire car in the US had GPS tracking and
all sorts of other gizmos in it, such that, apparently, if you go
screaming across the dark desert highway at 100 mph they can shut it
down remotely. As if our piece of shit 3.3 litre V6 would have gone
that fast...
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Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Champ bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

They have other things like remote control of the doors, etc, don't
they? If you lock your keys inside the car, they can open it remotely
or tell you were you've parked you car in Disneyland.
Star-summatorother.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Neat idea

Yeah right.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

*Ding*

And that's why this need jumping on from a very great height. Now.

Excuse me, I'm off to fax my MP...

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Yeah, all that shit.
--
Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Of course not. But I haven't *got* any semtex.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Make sure he keeps still as he goes through.

 

Crap aren't they? I'm going to try again. <tappity tap>
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Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

They're in the hanger having the GPS spy fitted ;o)

 

Keelworm wrote

Of course they will but it won't necessarily be twatish behaviour which
they will penalise but it will be that which costs them money. The
figures will out.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Whinging Courier

One of the Irish ins cos is offering something similar, but...

They are going to monitor speeding with it, and if the driver is a
habitual speeder, they'll be kicked off the scheme and have to pay a
normal premium.

Cunts, the lot of them.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

See, for something like my van, this wouldn't be a bad idea. I never go
over 80mph (it won't go faster than that without shaking itself to
pieces) and probably use it less than once a week to go shopping in and
I doubt I get more than 30mph when I'm doing that.

Yes.

 

Champ says...

The Datatool rep has all that shit on his BMW 3 series, made by
Datatool. I am so looking forward to the day it fucks up and leaves him
stranded.

Rip the piss....moi?

 

Sounds fucking great. Where do I sign up?

Disconnecting a GPS antenna sounds easy enough. Might even reconnect the
antenna or remove the tin-foil from around it for a couple of hundred
miles a year just to keep them from getting too suspicious.

 

Disconnect, drive ten miles, reconnect, drive another ten miles, disconnect
etc. It'll really piss them off if everybody goes off and on all over the
place.

<shrug> "Couldn't get a satellite, mate. I'd complain to the Pentagon, if I
were you."

 

It's been in beta for about 18 months, DAMHIK,IJD,OK?

Based on what I've seen it won't replace "traditional" insurance, it's
an alternative offering targeted at a different market sector to the
normal products..