I am also against the few clearly abusing the scheme of the 600k+ users of the scheme, but should all users be punished because of the few who abuse it and then there’s the added cost of all the trackers and monitoring of all the scheme’s users and the storage of such data.
When in many cases it’s not abuse and what you seem to be suggesting is that every non driving claimiant using the scheme, if they get a scheme car should have a tracker fitted and be monitored by 24/7 by an external third party, just incase the named drivers abuse the scheme.
That imo is like saying all people should have electronic tags fitted that are not criminals as they may commit a crime.
Thats not what the article was about it was about, it said
All new customers and those renewing their agreements with the Motability car scheme will now be forced to have a location tracker fitted to their car, if they live in a care home or have an open insurance policy.
Open policies allow disabled people to insure all of a flexible pool of personal assistants who may need to drive their car, rather than having to declare a small number of named drivers on their policy.
It seems like discrimination to me if it was put in place for all non drivers who is the claimant and should if it was the case, apply to all cars on mb, who’s details and address, driving licence number etc are registered via the insurance in any case, unlike on an open policy.
Also the tracker is different to a tracker, where if a car is stolen it can be activated as it’s not tracking the car 24/7. If that was the case I would not get a car on the scheme simple as and i don’t think Mb would do that either as it’s not like we are their employees and driving company vehicles and really they have any right or reason to track all users of the scheme. especally If they have the details of those users and their nominated driver/s details and they know if you live within 5 miles or not or at the same address.
Nothing is as black and white in life as you paint it. I am not the driver and never have been of her mb car, but i do see how, useful it was for her and without the use of it, it my brother wouldn’t of been able to provide the care he did for her and that was often needed at short notice.
That is something users of the scheme who do drive themselves don’t seem to understand and imo is not abuse of the scheme and in many case mb know about it and allow it as they did in my brothers case no tracker was needed as he was upfront about it..
That’s all i am going to add to this post regardless of any reply