Tracking Your Teen Driver | Consumer Reports

Car accidents are the #1 killer of teenagers. New tracking devices promise to help by alerting you if your teen is driving recklessly. Consumer Reports tests three: MotoSafety, Mastrack, and MobiCoPilot.

[zachg]

Or you could just teach your kid to be responsible and trust them. 

[Mayhemm]

You have to feel a bit of sympathy for the lady who lost her son, but no information was really given other than her kids were in a car accident on their first road trip.  They could have been hit by a drunk driver or suffered a blown tire.  Being a teenage driver in a car accident does not mean you were at fault.

All sorts of questionable things are justified in the name of "safety".  I think this is one of those things.  Besides, any teen with half a brain can probably re-program the things without their parents' knowledge.

[RealtimeReviews]

The question is who else can get this info? Insurance companies?

[supremewhip]

Tracking isn't a substitute for good parenting.

[atcracing]

what if the gps screws up and says little timmy drove into a lake?

[divisioneight]

I see the neighbor's teenage friends chow up in $40, 000 BMW's with powerful engines.  That's pretty scary when you consider the binge drinking these kids do versus what my generation did with some beer.  Our cars back then were tanks, had terrible brakes and low powered engines, and somehow we survived!  But the speed limit was 55 mph, and we didn't have cellphones or I-pods.