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I'd avoid anything with a speed written on the screen. I can't see an insurance company passing up the opportunity to screw you for going 5-over

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I turned off GPS on mine for that exact reason. If your speed is +- 10 mph the average speed of traffic, it's not a factor. Unless you're an insurance company, of course, and then it's a great excuse to deny a claim.

speed can probably be accurately inferred from video evidence anyway.

I'm pretty sure new cars are storing this information anyway.

Insurance companies will need to jump though hoops to access that data in a fender bender where you still have possession of the vehicle. If you provide it (in a dash cam video that's evidence that you shouldn't pay) you're giving them an opportunity to deny the claim right there. There's also a lot of cases where traffic is doing 20-over and 20-25 over is criminal in most states

If you have Progressive Snapshot or a similar device, that's storing driving data, but which cars do so by themselves?

Almost all modern cars have an Event Data Recorder as part of the SRS/Airbag system which records snapshot data in the event of a deployment. Here are some NHTSA standards for EDR storage:

http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/Rulemaking/Rules/Associated%2...

Here's a list of vehicles supported by one consultant's forensics software:

http://www.rimkus.com/uploads/pdfs/Event_Data_Recorder.pdf

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