FORT LAUDERDALE (CN) – An insurer dangles discounts for customers who install an electronic “Snapshot” gizmo in their car to track driving habits, but the device drains and kills the ...

Flo, the overly eager Progressive Insurance employee of television commercial fame, might not be riding along with policy-holders, but her company is planting devices under customers’ steering wheels ...

Powering this program is the Snapshot device itself, which plugs into the onboard diagnostic port (OBD-II) found near the steering wheel of most cars built after 1996. The device’s sleek design houses ...

With Snapshot, consumers receive a personalized insurance rate based on their safe driving habits. Drivers currently earning discounts in the optional program are already saving an average of $150 per ...