http://blog.accuquote.com/2009/03/24/hows-my-driving/ AccuQuote blog is brought to you by AccuQuote.com, a leading provider in term life insurance for people across the U.S. This blog is dedicated to providing you with valuable information from experts on the topics of insurance, financial planning and personal finance. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.accuquote.com/2009/03/24/hows-my-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-11792790 Insurance Guy Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:03:18 +0000 http://blog.accuquote.com/?p=1170334#comment-11792790 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. 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.

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