Monday, April 13, 2009

Track Your Teen with GPS Tracking For Cars

GPS tracking for cars isn't just for the police and special agents - it is increasingly becoming available to parents too. Consumers of all sorts have been getting their hands on this agile technology and have been implementing it in their leisure activities, in their jobs, and in the home. There is so much GPS can do for people that they are finally getting wise and putting it to good use!

One very interesting application of GPS tracking in the home is the use of a device in a car to monitor teen driving habits.

When parents let their teenager drive a car there are tons of things they have to think about. Will they drive safely? Will other drivers be driving safely around my teen? Who will be in the car with my teen to influence their driving behavior?

We can answer these questions when we are in the car with them, but what about when we can't been there? What about when they are driving home late at night from a friends house? Or coming home after the high school basketball game? Who is going to monitor their driving then?

GPS tracking for cars can, that is who.

Using GPS to monitor you teen's driving habits boils down to one word: safety. Teenage drivers have the highest crash risk per mile traveled when compared with drivers in other age groups. The problem is worst among 16 year-olds, probably because they have the least amount of time behind the wheel and are prone to risk taking behavior because of their immaturity.

The following chart from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety is telling:

GPS Tracking For Cars Teen Accident Statistics
As you can see, teen drivers are much more prone to be involved in fatal car crashes due to driver error, speeding, and having too many people in the car than any age rank up to 50 years old.

GPS tracking for cars can help with this if parents are willing to use this tool to prevent unsafe driving practices and enforce parental oversight on their teen's driving habits.

This would probably look something like this: A concerned parent installs a GPS tracking device like Zoombak in their teen's car. The parent goes into great detail with their teenager how they are expected to drive, what it means to drive safely, how to drive safely, and all the other important vehicle safety information the parent can think of. This is much, much more than simply asking your teen to take a drivers education class. It will involve a significant time commitment on your part where you spend hours behind the wheel with your teen instructing them in the safe operation of a vehicle.

Then, after doing this, you outline your expectations on how and when they should drive. Tell them that are not allowed to speed, have 3 or more passengers in the car, and can only drive at night under the strictest of conditions. Then you need to set up some consequences for them if they fail to adhere to these driving guidelines. It should be a graded system where severe or consistent infractions result in ever increasing restrictions on their driving privileges.

Now that you have taught your teen to drive safely and have set up guidelines for how to use the car, it is time to let the GPS tracker do the rest. Simply monitor your teenager's driving habits and when the break one of the rules - like break too fast, accelerate too fast, speed, or even idle the car for too long (yes, some GPS tracking devices for cars do let you know all of this information) - subject them to the consequences.

This is just old-school parenting combined with new technology. GPS tracking for cars can provide parents with the information needed to make informed choices about how to monitor their teen's driving behavior. Safety is synonymous with GPS tracking for cars.

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