Black Box That Marks Your Driving ; More Insurers Use Trackers to Decide On Cost of Cover

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HE may be a teenager who has just passed his driving test, but Tom McClusky hopes the passenger who travels with him on every journey will show he is no boy racer.

His ten-year-old Ford Fiesta is fitted with a black box - a tiny satellite tracker - that records where, when and how the car is driven. Tom, 18, expects this evidence to prove to his insurer that he is a careful driver and so cut his premiums.

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Black Box That Marks Your Driving ; More Insurers Use Trackers to Decide On Cost of Cover

This telematics technology is common in commercial vehicles but has remained on the fringes of private insurance. Fewer than 50,000 private cars are fitted with such insurance trackers.

But the black boxes are moving into the mainstream. Co-oper...

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