Your high tech car is probably spying on you.

If you’re buying a modern vehicle, there is a very high chance that your driving is being monitored. You might now know it, but all your driving metrics such as speed, location, and how fast and what angle you’re turning are all being recorded by your vehicle. All this data is then being saved into the car’s computer, and sent wirelessly to the manufacturer. 

The manufacturer could then use these driving metrics to do investigations for warranty claims, and they can deny your warranty since they think you might be a dangerous driver. 

Could they also be working with insurance companies and furnishing them with this information, to determine if the customer violated their insurance policies by driving dangerously? 

It wouldn’t surprise me. 

Take this GR Corolla for example, where 2 of them caught on fire and one person was denied a warranty claim because they were driving “dangerously.” 

How did Toyota know that?

They said at some point in the car’s life it sent out a data packet that included the car’s speed. They won’t tell me when or where so I don’t know how relevant it is, but they said the car had gone 114 mph and that is abuse of the vehicle. They don’t care that the car comes with a track day, it’s abused as soon as it’s over a certain speed, apparently.

The point of this article isn’t to determine who is at fault with the claim, but to let you know that your modern high tech vehicle knows what you’re doing, and that data can and will be used against you.

The GR Corolla is almost like a track car disguised as a street car, and even comes with a complimentary free track day where you will easily go over 114 mph, but somehow that data was used against this person whose hot hatch (pun intended) burned down to the ground. 

Check out this video that explains more in depth about these metrics being collected by your car, specifically Toyota.