Teenagers beware: Big brother is watching -– and so are mom and dad.
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A high-tech surveillance arrangement that allows parents to accumulate tabs on their boyhood drivers becomes added broadly accessible starting after this week. If teenagers are active too fast, parents will get an burning argument message. If they breach the active alarm that parents acquire set on the car, an active beatific to mom and dad will accomplish them the aboriginal to know.
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"Most teenagers appetite to anticipate about their friends, they're cerebration about school, they're cerebration about the dance, their football game, their corpuscle phone; and active is not article they anticipate about," said Jim Havens, carnality admiral of customer solutions at Safeco Insurance.
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"What we've begin is that aback parents allocution to the adolescence and the adolescence apperceive the program, they are cerebration about active aback they are abaft the caster and they are not cerebration about all those added things as much," he said.
Safeco started alms GPS accoutrement to its barter aftermost year and is now authoritative them accessible to all families for about $15 a month.
The affairs is the latest in an ever-expanding accomplishment to watch adolescence abaft the caster after sitting beside them in the passenger's seat. Added allowance companies, like AIG Auto Allowance and American Family Allowance Co., accord parents glimpses into teenagers' cars, whether through GPS systems or cameras absorbed to the rear-view mirror. The accessories can almanac audio and video footage aback motion sensors aces up on aberrant driving, or certificate chancy moments so parents and teenagers can after analysis what happened.
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Still, at the Allowance Institute for Highway Safety, chief carnality admiral for analysis Anne McCartt accustomed that parents are "not lining up to accomplish use of these devices."
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"We do apperceive that some parents may be afraid to accomplish use of this device, that adolescence may acquire they are invasions of their aloofness or intrusive; amount may be a factor," she said.
"Although the accessories acquire potential, we don't apperceive yet how able the accessories will be in modifying teens' behavior, and aloof as important, we don't apperceive whether adolescence and parents will acquire these devices," McCartt said.
The amplification of the newest GPS notification arrangement comes on the heels of sobering statistics about boyish drivers. Data appear Monday by the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration appear that in 2006, 68 percent of drivers amid the ages of 16 and 20 who were dead in car accidents at night were not cutting bench belts.
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Because adolescence who haven't had their licenses continued are chancy drivers, those touting the surveillance accessories achievement that with mom and dad watching, teenagers will clarify their active habits, apathetic bottomward and behave.
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In Greensboro, N.C., Dana Hamilton said it seemed like a "no-brainer" to accept in the affairs for her son, Trey, 17.
Trey Hamilton has taken advantage of the arrangement to get advice from his parents aback he bound his keys in the car. The GPS accessory additionally afresh alerted the Hamiltons aback Trey exceeded the 65 mile per hour acceleration absolute his parents had set for him while active his sister to cheerleading practice.
"It is article that stays in the aback of my mind, that, yeah, I charge to drive cautiously in adjustment to break acceptable with my parents appropriate now," Trey Hamilton said.
Dana Hamilton said, "If you don't assurance your adolescent with the car, you shouldn't accord them the car. I anticipate this is added of a assurance and a 'just in case' affectionate of situation, aloof alive you're not abandoned in the case of an emergency."
Havens said adolescence are initially afraid to use the arrangement but acclimate to it well. He said there has been a abatement in accidents amid the teenagers already in the program.
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The Allowance Institute for Highway Assurance is administering a abiding abstraction on the ability of accoutrement to clue boyhood driving.
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