Young drivers can save on car insurance with telematics technology.
Young drivers can save car insurance with telematics technology.
Young drivers have always faced the wrath when it comes to car insurance. The soaring car insurance premiums of 30% higher across the board in UK, had most young drivers making the choice of new technology as a means to cut down their car insurance cost. This technology is none other than ‘ Telematics”
What is Telematics and how does it help save car insurance for young drivers?
Telematics uses an in-car box that records and analyses your driving style and provides information that can be used to personalize premiums. In the UK Several insurers are introducing telematics to encourage younger drivers in particular to drive less aggressively and earn reduced premiums as a result. The logic is simple: careful drivers make better insurance risks. But the technology has come down in price so much that a mass-market rollout is getting closer, with devotees claiming it can reduce insurance premiums, lower driving costs and improve driver safety.
For example, Insurethebox, an online telematics-based insurer which launched last year, says two-thirds of its policyholders who received renewal notices in July and August were offered reductions in their premiums as a result of using the technology. Some of the savings topped £800, it says, with average reductions of 22 per cent (see case study). This is huge.
Allstate insurance and Progressive have launched this in USA.
The Allstate program is known as Drive Wise. Allstate uses a small device that plugs directly into an electronic port on the vehicle. This collects certain information about the way the policyholder drives.
According to Allstate, the device only collects information that could be used in calculating a policyholder’s rating. These pieces of information include when and how far a policyholder drives and whether he or she exceeds an 80 mph speed or slams on the brakes at any point. This data will then be made accessible to users through the Allstate website. The person opting in for this is offered a 10% discount upfront, which can be hiked up to 30% based on the mileage driven and record generated at the end of the year. Presently this is applicable only in the Province of Illinois
Young drivers in the province of Illinois can really take advantage of this offer from Allstate.
Stay tuned with us, since we are going to inform young drivers on saving car insurance with other options and programs- the one from Progressive. Besides this there is going to be held a Telematics conference in USA and we will be informing you about the interesting aspects of interest to you. Great ways how you can save car insurances soon.
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