GPS Used to Track Teens’ Driving
December 10th, 2004

Retired Gen. Tommy Franks has signed on to be the spokesman for a company that uses global positioning system technology in teens’ cell phones to let parents know how fast they’re driving, reports The Associated Press.

bumper04.jpg “Franks will be the official face of Teen Arrive Alive. The organization aims to get teens to carry a cell phone containing a GPS chip that sends out regular signals letting parents know where they are and how fast they’re going.

If a certain predetermined speed limit is passed, an alarm will go off in the cell phone and parents will be notified.

A bumper sticker on the teen’s car enables drivers to report reckless behavior. Both the teen and his or her parents are then notified by phone or e-mail that a negative driving report has come in.”

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Comments

I’d like to see what happens when parents are the ones driving bad and get called on for it…

2 - fdvg

Bottom line is parents are responsible for their kids’ behavior. Converse is not true. Kids have to answer to their parents if they have a wreck. Parents have to answer to themselves only. Unless there’s some kind of financial arrangement where the kids are paying for the parents car insurance, the kids don’t have any say in the driving misbehavior (speeding) of the parents. That’s up to the law to patrol…