My wife got a blurb in the mail from her insurance company (State Farm) claiming she could save 50% on her auto insurance. Of course this sucked her in, and she goes to the website which was long on marketing hype and short on details. Long story short, they want to install a device in her car to track speed, miles driven, accell & decel metrics, etc. It gets plugged into your OBDII port and xmits using cell phone signals.
It seems this concept has a name now:
Usage-based insurance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The State Farm one seems offer extra features, such as the ability to track someone, so you can see if they got home safely. No, really. They also offer a service to alert you when your OBDII throws a code.
Have any of you fallen for this? Personally, I want nothing to do with it.