[SGVLUG] [OT] I have found "Big Brother", and he is us...

[Christopher Smith]

...and that is a classic example of how increased transparency can actually
lead to greater inefficiency. ;-)

--Chris

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>wrote:

> A coworker got a prius a few years ago and raving about how fuel efficient
> it was.   She offered to drive us to lunch and she was so dismayed at the
> reduced mileage with a full car that she never offered to drive again.
>
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Jeremy Leader <jleader at alumni.caltech.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I wonder how much it would help just to display the score and the data
> that went into it to the driver, without even showing it to the insurance
> company.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that my driving habits are more economical when I'm in my
> wife's Prius, because it has a dashboard display showing approximate
> instantaneous mpg.
> >
> > --
> > Jeremy Leader
> > jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
> >
> > On 01/04/2011 10:53 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
> >> Depending on your thinking, this might strike you as far more/less big
> >> brother-ish than DriveMe Crazy:
> >>
> >>
> http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/dec/28/business/la-fi-allstate-20101228
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris
>



-- 
Chris
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