Uber has inked a deal with Metromile, the pay-per-mile car insurance service, that will enable Uber drivers in California, Illinois, and Washington to only pay insurance for the time they re on the road. We last covered Metromile back in 2013, just as the Bay Area-based firm had expanded into Washington State. In a nutshell, the company has developed a device called the Metronome, which a user plugs into their car to monitor their, well, driving. Metromile, as it happens, also offers car insurance which it charges purely on how long a driver is behind the wheel for, rather than a flat monthly or annual rate. Given many Uber drivers don t work on a full-time basis, using the Uber platform instead to garner extra funds in addition to a regular job, this could work rather well. But this is more than a simple case of Uber drivers plugging a little device into the little OBD II port in their car Metromile and Uber are integrating their platforms, letting drivers distinguish between the mil
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/28/uber-taps-metromile-to-let-drivers-pay-per-mile-on-their-car-insurance/
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