I hate that this device exists, and that a company can use such intrusive measures to gauge your worthiness as a driver, and charge you based on arbitrary criteria such as whether you brake too fast. Numbers and data from a monitoring device do not tell the whole story. Maybe your fast braking saved a child, or a kitten.

Plus they have access to other information – basically anything your OBD port can tell them. GPS data is an obvious target. With modern vehicles becoming more and more integrated, what else?

Anyhow, I love that people have already figured out how to work around it and limit the amount of information provided to Progressive.

I don’t use Progressive, but if I did, and they asked me to use this device, I would certainly consider this hack. Thanks to the person in my feed who mentioned this and brought it to my attention.

Hacking the Progressive Snapshot OBDII device for perpetual 30% discount on insurance
by inhacking