Admiral Appy Driver

miikeeyy92

miikeeyy92

miikeeyy92

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19 Dec 2010
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The south
I've just discovered this. Surely it's a win win situation, a journey you know you'll be 'good', you record, other journeys, you don't?

Does anyone know if it works with multicar policies? There's not that much information online.
 
No chance I'd ever voluntarily put this on my phone!

It'd obliterate the battery in my nexus 4 anyway but I have no desire for my insurance company to monitor and judge any journey I make, whether I think it's a good one or not
 
Is this like the Aviva app that judged you based on the accelerometer in your phone and gave you a discount according to how 'good' a driver you are?
 
I did this. Choose the drives carefully and can work well. I got a gold badge and a decent discount ( admiral were cheapest already). I got a few speeding warnings even though I was driving like a saint. Get all the badges to aim for gold :)
 
I've used it on a couple of runs so far, been rated silver. Not sure how much discount that would entitle me too. Need to rack up a couple more miles to find out!
 
What personal information does it want up front? I'd be interested to try it but wary of it secretly data gathering even when supposedly off, when I may not be the person driving :p
 
Kenai said:
What personal information does it want up front? I'd be interested to try it but wary of it secretly data gathering even when supposedly off, when I may not be the person driving :p
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I don't remember it taking much. Just name and reg. I have noticed that even when I don't have the app open, it uses some geofencing location stuff, so I just blocked it from using my location when I don't use it.
 
The Running Man said:
Id just ask my mum to drive and chuck the phone in. Old people seem to know the slowest way to accelerate just without stalling ..
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I wouldn't necessarily say that accelerating slowly is the key. I drove perfectly normally, and got silver, I was just smooth. I can't imagine that they'd be using your speed as it would be so inaccurate.
 
Kenai said:
Enough for them to link it to my current policy then, I'll be giving that a miss
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What can they prove from it though?

They can only prove that your mobile phone was present at those approximate (accurate to 1-10m) locations between those set time-stamps.

They cannot prove it was you with the phone;
The cannot prove it was your vehicle;
They cannot prove it was you driving;

Likewise, give it to your granny or mother and get racked up some gold stars.

It is so scant, it's just a gimmick.
 
Given this is Admiral who helped themselves to £20 of my money because they decided that me doing a speculative quote on elephant meant I obviously lied to them and have a modified car, I don't want the potential hassle of what can be proved and what Admiral think it proves!

They were demanding I take my car to a VW dealer to get them to write a report confirming my car was standard still.

Don't want to invite any opportunity for them to pull the same sstunt because they decide I was speeding or something and decide to charge more.
 
£20 for mods is actually very reasonable. I've previously been charged upwards of £200 for improved brakes + non-runflat tyres... both of which make the car safer and were fitted by/at BMW!
 
£20 taken without consent for a modification I don't even have, and then subsequently demanding I prove that I don't have it is entirely unreasonable IMO.
 
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