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Re: Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

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This is a great start to what I hope will be an awesome product. One of the other commenters mentioned fleet/enterprise customers -- let me raise my hand (as one of those customers) and say how SORELY needed this sort of approach to tech is in the fleet space. I actually predict (hope?) this will take off more on the business side than the consumer side. Here's the problem: Fleet managers (that is, people who are res…

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Re: Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

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post #99

This is a great start to what I hope will be an awesome product. One of the other commenters mentioned fleet/enterprise customers -- let me raise my hand (as one of those customers) and say how SORELY needed this sort of approach to tech is in the fleet space. I actually predict (hope?) this will take off more on the business side than the consumer side. Here's the problem: Fleet managers (that is, people who are res…

I spoke with a company recently that does mobile apps for truckers. Unfortunately the large trucks don't use the same protocols. But I can definitely see something similar being used for Taxis, Vans, city busses, shuttle busses, etc. Plenty of benefits.

Care to share the name of the company?

Re: Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spoke with a company recently that does mobile apps for truckers. Unfortunately the large trucks don't use the same protocols. But I can definitely see something similar being used for Taxis, Vans, city busses, shuttle busses, etc. Plenty of benefits.

Care to share the name of the company?

Sorry, I shouldn't. But their focus is on the regulatory side, rather than the fun eco analytics that I'd hoped they would be interested in.

Re: Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

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Love it. Want it. Except... Now I'm carrying around a device that can reliably be used to issue me speeding tickets. What is my protection from that?

You could try not speeding?

I'm not talking about real speeding, I'm talking about driving 70-75 in a 65 because that's what traffic is doing. A week later I get a ticket in the mail because some zealous law enforcement agency subpoenaed a bunch of records from automatic.com. Maybe I'm being paranoid but it doesn't seem to fall far outside the realm of possibility these days.

Re: Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant

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Love it. Want it. Except... Now I'm carrying around a device that can reliably be used to issue me speeding tickets. What is my protection from that?

can't your phone already do that?

Not very reliably. AFAIK, the geographic resolution on phones GPS would not hold up to scrutiny if you were driving within 10-20% of the speed limit.
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