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Originally Posted by STEVENMERL
I’m with State Farm 40 years. Clean record, excellent credit score. They just raised my auto insurance 30% for no reason. I would change but I haven’t anyone more reasonable yet.
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We are all getting hammered because newer cars are loaded with lots of worthless technology that cost a small fortune to replace in the event of a minor accident. Replacing a rear bumper on an older car costs about a thousand dollars. The same replacement on a new car costs over five thousand dollars because it contains multiple sensors and a camera. All of this technology that is supposed to make driving safer, and correspondingly less expensive, is having the opposite effect. It’s creating a society dependent on sensors, rather than driving skills, resulting in both more accidents and substantially higher repair costs. When a friggin Tesla gets in what is seemingly a minor accident, the insurer is likely to consider it totaled because of the excessive repair cost.