The Atrocities of Safe Auto Insurance

Their commercials have littered the TV rotation of late. Appallingly, they appeal to the most horrible drivers in the land, touting their wares as the savior of those who shouldn’t be on the road in the first place.

This blatant act of lunacy is just too awful to ignore – for us, anyway. Commercials showing drivers swerving everywhere, hitting other cars, and generally displaying horrendous car control — and then congratulating these drivers (and, of course, all the miscreant drivers watching the commercial) by offering them “insurance that other companies won’t touch”.

So we’re all aware of the current economic conditions, especially with regard to the real estate lending fiasco, yes? The reason so many “investors” (you may refer to them as “gamblers”, and they’ve been losing big lately) and lenders have been taking a beating is because they took gigantic risks on subprime mortgages in the first place. Very subprime. People who, in all honesty, had no business taking on payments they couldn’t afford.

Safe Auto Insurance appeals to the same class of individual, beckoning to those who in all likelihood barely scraped by on their driver’s exam, then promptly forgot everything on it. “Arrested for driving with no license like an idiot? Get Safe Auto!” “Are you completely insane behind the wheel, with no sense of how road signs work, or traffic flow, or where your mirrors are? Should you even be driving a car? Don’t worry about it! Safe Auto’s got you covered!” “Did you just murder someone, and are attempting to get to the airport and flee the country? Call your friendly Safe Auto operator, they probably have something on their robotic-drone script to get you your plane tickets quicker!”

Some may think this is overreacting, but then they may be those unsafe drivers that Safe Auto promises to insure and put on the road with all the rest of us. If there was a way to boycott this company without wasting a whole lot of time and not getting very far, we would do it, along with gigantic faceless auto discount parts warehouses with horrendous customer service that employ call centers full of people who have never popped a hood in their life. Those companies are next.