Smart motorways started appearing in 2006, with the first trial on the M42. Now, some MPs and road safety organisations are claiming that they’re dangerous and need an overhaul. How smart motorways work Some smart motorways do away with the...
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We’re all growing more and more reliant on our tech. Nearly a quarter of UK households now have a voice assistant like Amazon Echo or Google Home, and 41% plan on having one in the next few years. Smartphone use...
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Reviews site Feefo has awarded us a Gold Trusted Service Award for our last year of customer feedback. To achieve a Gold Trusted Service level, a business has to have a star rating of at least 4.5 – and we’re...
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Insurance Innovators Rising Star Award 2019 Name: Joey Ross Role: Senior Pricing Analyst Joey was clearly a star from his first interview: he challenged me and the CUO on plans for growth right there and then. Since joining in the...
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Car insurance scams are all over Instagram and Snapchat, targeting people trying to find cheap car insurance. Often they’re embarrassingly obvious – but if you were desperate to get that price down, would you take the risk? Who’s affected? Types...
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Be a parrot “You’ve got to do your best to hope that everyone buys into the vision that you’ve set out. And you can only do that by really being a parrot and continually talking about that vision. “Now, you’ve...
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Changing the telematics customer journey “We tried to make the customer journey as simple as possible. “You go online, whether that’s on your phone or on a desktop and you purchase the Ticker policy. “The minute you’ve done that...
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Car insurance can seem like one last tick-box before you get to drive for the first time after passing your test. And in a way it is: it’s the final official step after months of frustration and hard work. But...
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Ticker’s been sponsoring former-F1 driver Mark Blundell in the British Touring Car Championship 2019. We’re now half-way through the season, so we thought it was time to catch up with Mark about how his BTCC experience has been. What’s...
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Graduated licensing – restrictions on new drivers – has been debated back and forth for years. Countries including Canada and Australia have versions of graduated licensing, but the UK has always steered clear to avoid interfering with young people’s lives...
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