Confused.Com - worriyng political leaning
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I'm sure this will have been mentioned on here before but I was rather alarmed when confused.com started advertising the 'good driver' black box for your car. I thought that had been given up after the last company tried this (can't remember who it was).
They also do lots of articles on 'speed is bad' and on reducing rural road speed limits to 40 or 30 because people keep falling off the road. One of the reasons given for this is 'the lack of a kerb'
Anyone else noticed this? Are all the comparison companies this bad or is it just confused.com with the politcal leaning to killing off any enjoyment from driving? I'm aware they have links with Brake.
I'm boycotting confused for any insurance purpose anyway but thought I'd bring it to the attention of the pistonheads if it hasn't already been mentioned so they are aware of what their money is paying for.
They also do lots of articles on 'speed is bad' and on reducing rural road speed limits to 40 or 30 because people keep falling off the road. One of the reasons given for this is 'the lack of a kerb'
Anyone else noticed this? Are all the comparison companies this bad or is it just confused.com with the politcal leaning to killing off any enjoyment from driving? I'm aware they have links with Brake.
I'm boycotting confused for any insurance purpose anyway but thought I'd bring it to the attention of the pistonheads if it hasn't already been mentioned so they are aware of what their money is paying for.
They also sponsor BRAKE - the fake road safety charity too.
http://www.brake.org.uk/about-us/brakes-corporate-...
There's a whole list of firms to avoid for the same reason.
http://www.brake.org.uk/about-us/brakes-corporate-...
There's a whole list of firms to avoid for the same reason.
Johnnytheboy said:
They also sponsor BRAKE - the fake road safety charity too.
http://www.brake.org.uk/about-us/brakes-corporate-...
There's a whole list of firms to avoid for the same reason.
I don't think I'd seen that particular list of Brake 'sponsors' before but its a list you could make up from those with a ulterior motives - Arriva, Network Rail, ambulance chasing solicitors and insurance companies. Oh and Siemens who make a lot of the traffic camera equipment. And eye test/correction companies who want to make eye tests compulsory. I don't see any of the motoring enthusiast groups on there.http://www.brake.org.uk/about-us/brakes-corporate-...
There's a whole list of firms to avoid for the same reason.
I do agree with the requirement for regular eye tests, my dad is so short sighted in one eye its near useless but refuses to wear his glasses and as a result often has parking shunts.
renrut said:
I don't think I'd seen that particular list of Brake 'sponsors' before but its a list you could make up from those with a ulterior motives - Arriva, Network Rail, ambulance chasing solicitors and insurance companies. Oh and Siemens who make a lot of the traffic camera equipment. And eye test/correction companies who want to make eye tests compulsory. I don't see any of the motoring enthusiast groups on there.
So how about Diageo, maybe they want us all to drive around pissed up? or Keltic Clothing, maybe they think we should dress like welshmen.They also had some bks about "Fed up with congestion ? Road charging is the answer" in one of their weekly email spam things.
Was going to unsubscribe from their service and never use them again purely for that, but knowing they sponsor Brake means I'm going to avoid them far more actively in future.
Was going to unsubscribe from their service and never use them again purely for that, but knowing they sponsor Brake means I'm going to avoid them far more actively in future.
mercfunder said:
renrut said:
Riley Blue said:
It's not necessary to exceed speed limits to enjoy driving.
Thats a bit of an assumption on your part. I didn't say I did speed.Big corporation sponsors charity, happens all the time.
renrut said:
They also do lots of articles on 'speed is bad' and on reducing rural road speed limits to 40 or 30 because people keep falling off the road. One of the reasons given for this is 'the lack of a kerb'
So maybe he finds the belming idiocy of their reasoning objectionable.mercfunder said:
renrut said:
I don't think I'd seen that particular list of Brake 'sponsors' before but its a list you could make up from those with a ulterior motives - Arriva, Network Rail, ambulance chasing solicitors and insurance companies. Oh and Siemens who make a lot of the traffic camera equipment. And eye test/correction companies who want to make eye tests compulsory. I don't see any of the motoring enthusiast groups on there.
So how about Diageo, maybe they want us all to drive around pissed up? or Keltic Clothing, maybe they think we should dress like welshmen.Keltic clothing supply 'corporate clothing' i.e. things like hi-vis jackets and the list on their site includes 'traffic wardens and enforcement uniforms'. Hardly a big leap is it.
braddo said:
Nick M said:
They also had some bks about "Fed up with congestion ? Road charging is the answer" in one of their weekly email spam things.
It seems like a pretty logical answer for Europe's most densely populated country, however.It's like when the changed the payment at the Dartford Crossing from a toll to a 'Congestion Charge' - it's still pretty damn busy every day and the congestion charge has done bugger all to change that...
I expect some clever techies will find a way to spoof the data on a black box.
It's telemetry from your car plus GPS, which should be simple enough, if the Iranians can do it to a US drone, it can deffo be done. Build in economies of scale and we'll all be paying more reasonable insurance
John
It's telemetry from your car plus GPS, which should be simple enough, if the Iranians can do it to a US drone, it can deffo be done. Build in economies of scale and we'll all be paying more reasonable insurance
John
braddo said:
Nick M said:
They also had some bks about "Fed up with congestion ? Road charging is the answer" in one of their weekly email spam things.
It seems like a pretty logical answer for Europe's most densely populated country, however.Twincam16 said:
braddo said:
Nick M said:
They also had some bks about "Fed up with congestion ? Road charging is the answer" in one of their weekly email spam things.
It seems like a pretty logical answer for Europe's most densely populated country, however.You can be fairly safe in assuming they'll never campaign for better road transport.
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