SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND CLASSIFYING VEHICLE OPERATOR BEHAVIOR

System for determining qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof for a motor vehicle operator. At least one personal monitoring device monitors and communicates information about an operator of the motor vehicle, including at least driving data collected when the operator is operating the motor vehicle without receiving such driving data from vehicle sensors, calculated or derived based on data solely collected by the personal monitoring device without receiving such data from vehicle sensors, or combinations thereof. Application software on the device interfaces with the personal monitoring device hardware for monitoring and communicating, being activated and deactivated based on trigger events. At least one control system collects, processes and communicates at least a portion of the information collected and/or derived by the personal monitoring device used for determining qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof. At least one algorithm determines qualification for insurance, cost of insurance or combinations thereof for the operator based on at least a portion of the information collected by the personal monitoring device.