Personal Injury Law

Tracking Your Dangerous Teen Drivers - Literally

By Eddie Farah

You may have seen them on the road. A teenager with their drivers license less than one year, speeding past, jamming their brakes on when someone doesn’t get out of their way, trying to drive around them and not being able to make it, jamming their brakes on again. I’ve actually said out loud – if that was my kid – I just would want to know so the proper consequences could be delivered. Or should I say, taken away.

Parents take heart. Technology has heard your concerns and has responded. A GPS tracking system will tell you exactly what your child is doing behind the wheel of your car.

A number of these items are able to monitor speed. Location, time, where they went, and how long they stayed. Fitting inside your car discretely, the GPS device works by receiving signals from 24 satellites orbiting the earth. Every second you get a reading and are able to access the tracking data.

Here are some available – GPS Teen Tracking - $229 - more information on their Web site.

Trying to keep track of drivers on trucking fleets companies have had to rely on real time tracking devices. Now you can get one to monitor your teen’s speed and location. LandAirSea will sell you one for $600. Learn more about it on their Web site.

The number one cause of death for teens are automobile accidents. Almost four thousand teens are killed every year in traffic accidents and hundreds of thousands of teens are injured, some critically and permanently. Add other teen passengers, traveling at night, and distractions such as cell phones, CDs, texting AND the youth and inexperience of the driver, one of these devices might just deliver a little piece of mind. #

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).