Imagine that you’re a parent and your child has gone to the movies with a couple of friends, but it’s almost twelve o’clock and your child hasn’t responded to calls or text messages from you. You start to panic because your child could be hurt, lost, somewhere they are not suppose to be, or in danger. If you had installed a GPS tracking device in your child’s car, you would be able to know exactly where they are and how fast they are going no matter if they call or text you back. This is why I believe that every parent should be permitted to installing a tracking device in their child’s car. The main reason that many parents are installing these trackers is so that they know exactly how fast that their child is going at any given moment. Being …show more content…
Putting a tracking device on the child's car will most likely make them drive better because they know that their parents are always watching them no matter what they do. If they do something wrong, they know that their parents will most likely get on them for not following the rules. Encouraging the child to be a better and safer driver early on in their driving career will result in them being a better and safer driver later on in their driving career. On the other hand, using a tracking device can also hurt both the child and the parent. Using a tracking device can make the child feel like they are being watched too much or that their parent does not trust them enough to let them go out by themselves without constantly being watched. So, while there are a couple of negative effects, there are many positive effects to having a tracking device. Overall, tracking devices will have a great benefit to the parent and the child. This will allow the parent to be able to tracking and keep up with what their child is doing at all times. Do you think installing a tracking device in teenagers car will have a positive or negative towards both the child and the
This article mainly focuses on the solution for texting while driving. While the majority of people will admit that texting while driving is dangerous, they will still participate in the act. With the auto industry getting more and more advanced, it starts to create more opportunities for drivers to get distracted. For a long time, we have had many of things that can be a distraction. What is going to help people become less distracted drivers? Parents already have the option to download an app for their kids that notify the parents when their child is going over a certain speed
Although this service sounds quite convenient and has its obvious benefits, there are other issues to be considered. For example, many ethical dilemmas that play from privacy issues. In a world when at one time you could take a walk to remove yourself from the eye of another, we not may be under constant supervision of sorts. Tracking devises are easily placed in many things, cell phones, which are used by nearly all people in today's American society, are the recent and most wide spread target for GPS. Is it ethical to track someone through an everyday devices such as a cell phone, is tracking people ethical in itself? These are the questions that must be resolved before we can celebrate the positives of such technological advancements.
In this article written by the author Bruce Feiler, titled “Teenage Drivers? Be Very Afraid”, he talks about how he suggest the parents to stop being helicopter parents and allow their children to be independent. However, other professionals’ suggestions are the opposite when teenagers start to drive. As a result of the teenagers’ immaturity, the parents are told to be more involved because their child’s life may be in danger. As stated in the article by Nichole Moris “the most dangerous two years of your life are between 16 and 17, and the reason for that is driving.” There are various factors that play huge roles through this phrase of the teenagers’ life: other passengers, cellphones, and parents. In 2013, under a million teenage drivers were involved in police-reported crashes, according to AAA. The accidents could have been more but many teenage accidents go unreported. As a result, one of their recommendations to the parents is to not allow their children to drive with other passengers: other passengers can big a huge distraction and could increase the rate of crashes by 44 percent. That risk doubles with a second passenger and quadruples with three or more. Furthermore, as technology has taken over teenagers’ lives, the parents should suggest to those teenagers who insists on using the phones that the only safe place for it to be: in a dock, at eye level, on the dashboard. The worst place is the cup holder, the driver’s lap, and the passenger’s seat. Next, professionals also suggest that the parents implement their own rule and even continue the ones like the graduated driver’s licenses regulations. This regulation includes restrictions like not allowing their children to drive between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. To
“Do you wish you’d grown up with your mom tracking your every move? If not don’t do it to your own kid.” states Lenore Skenazy in her persuasive article Tracking Kids like Felons. These words draw an immediate comparison to “the golden rule” or “treat others how you want to be treated.” In this article Skenazy evaluates a personal-tracking app called FamilySignal. As the readers we see the author’s take on this specific point in the very first sentence when she uses sarcasm on the word “safe.” Skenazy does not give too many facts but she does base most of her article off of morals, which may even be more persuasive. Even in today’s day and age tracking ones every step is definitely not ok, even with the advanced technology that we have.
These sort of programs have shown immense help in the number of fatalities on the road today. Along with these kinds of programs there have been several laws put in place that ban cell phone use while driving. In Syracuse, N.Y. there have been strict laws against handheld cellphone use and texting and driving, and they have been extremely effective (Copeland, 1). Law enforcement saw over 70% of texting driving put to a halt. Transportation secretary Ray LaHood said, “Over half a million people are said to be injured, and thousands more are killed in distracted driving accidents” (Copeland, 1).Another very effective campaign that will probably soon be known world-wide is “Phone in one hand, Ticket in the other”(Copeland, 1). Most people in todays world would be familiar with the “click it or ticket” phrase that has allowed people to be reminded to put on your seat belt. Just as this campaign reminds people to wear a seat belt the “Phone in one hand, Ticket in the other” is designed to remind drivers that it is far too dangerous to be interacting with your phone while driving (Copeland,
There are approximately 5,400 deaths per year that are linked to distracted driving, and thousands more were injured. (U.S. Department of Labor). Those fatalities are our neighbors, close friends, and even family. How can we prevent this from being so prominent? How can we make the roads a safe place to be again? These questions have many different answers, but many prove to be un-effective. I believe that the best and only way to resolve this issue is to implement tougher laws on cell-phone use in vehicles, and educate our youth to the best of our abilities on the dangers of distracted driving.
We shall notice that the insurance increase from year to year. After insurers sign the policy, some become careless. Because they have a higher deductible amount, they would care less about being involved in a small accident or some scratches on their vehicle. They will claim them all to the insurance company. Since the frequency of claiming gets more and more often. The insurance companies have to increase insurance in order to cover their cost. And this device will reduce the number of accident in some ways. The device monitors drivers and send the data to the system. If the result shows a driver has a good driving habit, it will not only reduce the insurance but also help reducing insurance companies’ cost. From the article, it states that “In other parts of the world, including Europe, the U.S. and Japan, such devices have been used for years, with insurers claiming they result in fewer accidents, fewer insurance claims and more consumer choice”. (Paragraph 7) It seems like this new technology turns out to be a win-win. Which is bringing benefits to both customers and insurance companies.
Your son ! he has gotten into a horrific accident, but you have no idea where. With the safe tracking device, you can know where he's at and how fast he's going. I believe that parents should use the safetrack teen driver because it's not expensive and parents won't have to worry about where their kids are at, but it shouldn't be overpowered.
The thing that I could see happening is if the parents ground their kids and they didn't want them sneaking away.The kids would want to go do something with friends because of how bored they are of just sitting in their room staring at the wall all day.That must be some pretty strict parents if they're willing to spend that much money on a tracker for their kids.Although I can actually see my dad doing that to me putting a
This technology is not infallible and there are still many issues concerning the reliability of the data but despite these potential concerns, GPS evidence has begun to play a prominent role in criminal cases. Many people has been convicted using GPS evidence and many people is being tracked to monitor criminal activity, also law enforcement agencies are using GPS tracking devices to monitor parolees and dangerous sex offenders. It’s seem that this technology is here to stay and is gaining a lot of attention in the American Criminal Justice
Tracking isn't overly creepy or weird, as it teaches a child what is right and wrong. Tracking can put restrictions on a child to teach them
Many teens enjoy driving because it gives them a sense of freedom. They feel free to go where they want to go, and do what they want to do. Why would one take away this feeling? It would only communicate a lack of trust. This would only cause them to get angry and rebel
Also, the crime in the area that use the tracking devices could go down because people know that they are being watched. Not to mention, that even though this can lead to other people hacking into other devices to find out personal information, we are coming up with ways to prevent this so everyone is safe. This proves that tracking devices can help solve many world wide problems. So, because there has been a lot of crimes and disappearances, we need this sort of technology in the world to help solve these problems. But first, we have to trust the people that hold the technology in their hands. If we do that, then we can help solve to
Self-driving cars are the wave of the future. There is much debate regarding the impact a self-driving car will have on our society and economy. Some experts believe fully autonomous vehicles will be on the road in the next 5-10 years (Anderson). This means a vehicle will be able to drive on the road without a driver or any passengers. Like any groundbreaking technology, there is a fear of the unforeseen problems. Therefore, there will need to be extensive testing before anyone can feel safe with a vehicle of this style on the road. It will also take time for this type of technology to become financially accessible to the masses, but again alike any technology with time it should be possible. Once the safety concern has been fully addressed
He proves that there are a lot of in-car technologies in today’s society that can demand our full attention without us even knowing, and can lead to tremendous consequences that can become dangerous distractions on the road. Satellite navigation (GPS) makes our lives easier because it can give us the correct directions to the desired address. This is unlike the past where the navigationally challenged would consider it a nightmare to drive to a new location. Furthermore, there are many upsides that technology brings to students by presenting new ways of learning where technology is being used in the classroom. Within the article “Cell phones in schools pros and cons” presented by Rujuta Borkar, the advantages of having a cellular phone device in school are through emergency contact, and having a cell phone for security purposes.