March 10, 2005
Teen tracking
Figuring their children are better off annoyed than dead, parents have opened a new front in the battle to lower teen accident rates, reports The Chicago Tribune.
"Using technology employed by truck fleets to monitor drivers, families are spending as much as $2,500 for microcomputers and "black boxes" that feed speed and braking data into a home computer; cockpit video cameras; Global Positioning System devices that track teenagers through their cell phones; and lower-tech surveillance, such as the Tell-My-Mom.com bumper sticker."
"No one's done a study yet that shows these new methods work," said Ronald Knipling, a research scientist at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute who has led a research forum on electronic monitoring. "But it's a very promising idea."
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