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The Floow at Connected Car Insurance USA, Chicago Article written by Nathan George
The Floow team enjoyed another busy and exciting week at this year’s Connected Car Insurance USA conference and exhibition back in September, which took place in Chicago. The annual event brought together over 130 insurers, automakers and leading connected car experts to discuss next generation insurance products and services, with telematics at the cornerstone of the conversation. We spent the entire show meeting with both existing partners and new prospects to discuss our world-leading telematics solutions.
Distracted Driving and Driver Scoring At the conference, there was a general recognition that the most significant predictor of risk is distracted driving, which has led to a definite shift towards using smartphones as a sensor; if you want the most powerful predictor of driving risk, you have to be able to capture distracted driving. Our class-leading scoring system uses distraction as one of the five key components we monitor to create an overall driverrisk score. At The Floow, we take this one step further; not only do we capture the
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