Mar 24
How’s My Driving?
TTI, Inc., designed a new program that targets high-risk drivers by placing “How’s My Driving?” bumper stickers on their cars. The program encourages MVA, judges and insurance carriers to require How’s My Driving? monitoring for “high-risk” drivers, because in their mind, the solution is accountability.
Much like Neighborhood Watch programs have done for street crimes, TTI, Inc. plans to use citizen advocacy to enforce our highways to reduce car crashes and save lives.
Insurance companies have been studying this for years and the studies are conclusive. How’s My Driving? programs save lives and money. They show that fleet drivers that know they can be reported drive safer and are more responsible.
According to TTI, this unique program does not require reporting a number on a sign but uses the vehicle’s license plate as the identifying number. It, therefore, allows any driver to report any other unsafe driver. Knowing this, changes the attitude of unsafe drivers.
TTI estimates that if every state implemented “How’s My Driving? For Everyone” the annual benefits would exceed 57 billion dollars per year and save over 14,000 lives.
What are your thoughts? Is this an invasion of privacy? What’s next? DNA testing for pre-existing conditions when applying for health or term life insurance.
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March 24th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
There’s an old saying “the devil’s in the details”. There have been several studies of “How’s My Driving?” programs (I was one of the study sponsors – our study involved 30,000 vehicles and 3.5 years of data). The program described by TTI represents a radical departure from what has been proven effective and launches out into untested, dangerous territory. This questionable program relies on drivers TEXTING on their cell phones, and has never been tested on a large scale (using license plates alone to identify a vehicle). Current programs using a five point verification of vehicle identity and live operators to discuss the situation with the motorist make sense and already cover half a million commercial vehicles in the USA. When used to compassionately coach and train drivers, the traditional Hows My Driving (HMD) programs ARE effective; however, this new venture is entirely unproven and suspect.