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The Val-d’Oise prefecture is worried about pirate convenience stores, a phenomenon that is gaining momentum on the quick tracks of the department.
The gesture has become commonplace: use a GPS application to reach the destination. But on the road, the application also serves to report broken down vehicles. Information accessible to everyone that some use to try to swindle you. Journalists from France 2 have experienced it by simulating a damage. Distress lights, red triangle and yellow vest, but neither the insurance nor the police is notified. The position is reported on the application.
In just a few minutes, a tow truck stops on the aisle. Make rounds to locate breakdowns, practice is not very usual for convenience stores. Normally, it is the insurance that sends them. Another anomaly: no price displayed, gold, on this national, the price is framed by the State. The driver is careful not to say it and has only one obsession: to join insurance. Knowing the maximum amount that the insurer would be ready to reimburse to be able to invoice the intervention as much as possible.
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