Risk Management

Progressive launches new insurance telematics program as Strategy Analytics predicts connected telematics revenues to triple

In this week’s Brief: Progressive, Google, Verizon, Quartix, Google Maps, Scope Technologies, iQ-Telematics, MiX Telematics, and Strategy Analytics

Cesar Satellite: The [financial] crisis helped restructure the telematics services market in Russia

TU talks to Semen Fokin, business development director for Cesar Satellite, about the growing telematics market in Russia.


Telematics and ADAS: Ready for take off

Susan Kuchinskas explores why the market for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) may finally be ready for prime time.


Numerex: Telematics is “an emerging and vital trend in the insurance marketâ€

TU speaks to Rick Burtner, senior vice president and general manager of the Location-Based Services Group at Numerex, about the future of insurance telematics

Trafficmaster Plc: “Telematics is altering the way we look at automotive insuranceâ€

TU speaks to Stuart Berman, executive director, technologies with Trafficmaster Plc, on the future of the insurance telematics market.

EMB: Telematics can deliver an improved insurance product

TU talks to Robin Harbage, c-counsel business consultant with EMB, about the impact of telematics on the auto insurance industry


Can Telematics Reinvent Auto Insurance?

Andrew Tolve reports on the challenges and opportunities of building a ‘pay-how-you-drive’ car insurance model.

We’ve all experienced the frustration before: An auto insurer asks for some basic information—age, sex, credit score, and driving record—plugs that information into an equation, and voila! Out pops a premium that only vaguely represents how you as a driver really drive.


Trying on Google’s Goggles, BMW drives MILE Traffic and Travel services in Europe, and more…

Software giant Google has unveiled a visual search application for smartphones called Google Goggles. When users with the new mobile application take a picture, Google launches a search for information associated with that image, whether it is a bottle of wine at a vineyard, the façade of a restaurant in Manhattan, or a street sign in the backwoods of West Virginia. Once the search is complete, users receive a list of links on their smartphones just as they would on their computer after a conventional Google word search.


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