Ford Sync and State Farm Partner for Automatic Usage-Based Discounts
2nd June 2012
Ford is working with State Farm to add all Sync-equipped vehicles to the insurance provider’s list of Drive Safe and Save approved vehicles. Once a customer signs up for the program, they can run a Vehicle Health Report which will then relay miles-traveled to State Farm for potential discounts of “up to 40 percent.” While Sync’s automatic integration with State Farm will be limited to Utah for the time being, it intends to expand this support to other areas in the near future.
I’m opening a book on how long it will take for some Nosy Parker social-welfare ‘activist’ group like the ACLU to sue for discrimination because their slumdog proteges aren’t getting the discounts even though they drive like six-year-olds. I’m thinking less than a year.
And that’s not including the fringies who decry this as the next seven-league-step toward an Orwellian future.