I don't think anyone has considered those of us - Home Health Nurses and Therapists - that drive for a living. That would be an impossible cost for us and would lead to a decrease in care for the homebound. I have been a home health RN for over 20 years and have had only 1 accident. Just wanted to let everyone know, not everyone drives 5 miles to work!

Put me in the "No" camp. Convenience at the cost of liberty is not a trade-off.

The concern is that this will be a back-end mandate by charging non-equipped consumers a huge penalty.

"But, I saved money" has officially replaced, "the trains run on time".

how is this any different than charging insurance rates based on your credit score? So I pay my electric bill 2 days late, does that make me suddenly an unsafe driver? Stupid logic on its face. both of these factors are totally irrelevant. Traffic tickets are also totally irrelevant.

The only factor that matters is how many chargable accidents you have. Because the only way your insurance companies pays a single nickel is if you have a chargable accident.
So why would driving habits, credit score or traffic tickets matter. If as the insurance companies say, that these factors make you have chargable accidents or are a valid predictor of accidents, why not just charge based on the accidents in the first place and fire the legions of pinheads on the payroll of insurance companies keeping track of and scoring all these totally irrelevant events?

But the answer is simple. Insurance companies want to make their rating system mysterious. If it were easy to comprehend and totally transparent, the insured would be in control and not the other way around.

If this invasion on everyone's privacy does not scare you out of your wits, it should. We will rue the day when insurance companies or government track your every move in the guise of safety or saving money.

This is to trick consumers, in both its fascist mind-set and its economic incompetence, reflecting an abysmal lack of understanding of the role of infrastructure in promoting economic progress, and an intent to impose Big Brother-style surveillance measures upon the population. Rather than simply raising the gasoline tax, which would be the most efficient method for collecting more revenue, the commission proposes instead the creation of an entirely new, and tremendously intrusive and expensive, system of tracking the movement of every vehicle, and using that movement to calculate taxes. These new fees would use the behaviorists' pleasure/pain methods to punish drivers for driving in rush hour, or driving on congested roads, or driving cars with poor gas mileage.

You are merely a temporary steward over your so-called possessions.

Everything belongs to the state.

They will do with their property as they desire.

Illusions are wonderful.

So is the American Dream.

Also your moderator deleted my posts and banned me today. I'm sure you approve of this total orwellian society.

What a joke, unfortunately I have a question so please tell me how I can post on "your" message board? Should I get a different user name? Like all the other clowns who post how much of a tip they should leave.

I wonder is the other criteria will apply, like one's age, area where one resides, the type of car one drives etc. Or are they basing the rate strictly on your driving behavior?

By the way, Mr. Jim Rivers needs to chill out, stop attacking Clark personally...for $3.95 anybody can find out most of your life history now days. Privacy as we used to know it is gone.

On clarks site "Clark loves the idea of this type of insurance, though he realizes many motorists may have their reservations. "

Clark is getting to be a real moron! Here he goes again wanting government to put something in "MY CAR" to track me. Why is Clark for all these stupid ideas? Doesn't he understand that all this does is take more money from us. This will in no way lower our insurance rates but make them higher and higher, the privacy issues also becomes apparent.

Come on Clark stop being so stupid, and use your brain! I thought you were better then David Ramsey, but you are starting to be a real fool as well.

Stop counting pennies at Dollar store and fight against all these nonsense money grabbing ideas. Give the people some real support on these issues.

Instead of purchasing auto insurance, add a fee to each gallon of gas bought then everyone would be insured.

California is a communist country within the US why be like them. If we keep wanting to be like California we will end up like them. So goes California so goes the nation straight to hell.

no way what next pay as you go garbage pu,or police and fire,im forced to pay for ever church and non profits that i never use im not for the big brother saying what and were i drive for cost.if i go threw the high crime area do i have to pay extra,what about if i dont have a phone and dont text and call while i drive do i get a break?