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From the "I'm glad they didn't have this when I was growing up!" department, we get this:

The DriveRight CarChip. A recording device tht plugs into your OBD-II system and records starts, stops, distance, acceleration, decceleration, when it was plugged in and unplugged, and SPEED!!!! Your parents can then remove the device and download it to their PC.

Then the whoopin's ensue!!!!

Go to http://www.carchip.com to learn more.

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

Yes, and there are companies that make "parent friendly" gps units that are designed to track the movements of your teenager as well so you know everywhere they've been. You could do the same thing with just about any handheld gps unit- just get one with a tracking mode, turn it on and hide it in the car where it can still get a signal.

My child isn't quite two yet, but it seems to me if you can't trust your child at or above the age of 16 then you probably shouldn't give them the car keys. Maybe there is some life experience I have yet to have that will change my mind between now and then, but I somehow doubt it.

Oh, and that's not to say I didn't do my share of stuff that was fairly dumb when I got the car keys, but at the same time I don't think I was ever in any serious enough danger to warrant my parent(s) breaking a trust bond with computer tracking devices. But that could just be me.

Now tracking your employees in company vehicles is another matter entirely!


--Donnie

I just can't wait until the police and the government get in on the action and your own car will start spitting out speeding tickets. Oh, hold on a second, they can already pull info from the computer for accident investigations. My mom would have killed me if she knew how I was driving when I was 16-18.

I can think of a number of situations in which this would have caused me to get busted. But my brother on the other hand would have been in a HEAP O' TROUBLE.

One day he comes back with the pick-up truck and my Dad wants to know how the rear shock mounts were broken. My brother had his usual answer of "Don't know". The truck was pretty crappy, so new damage could just be blamed on rust, etc.

But the real story was that he and his buddies had been out jumping the truck off of some pile or hump of dirt on some old road. Like they say it is not the fall that kills, but the landing.

So I wonder if those devices will measure "hang time" for people like my brother.

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Richard Casto
1972 Porsche 914
2013 Honda Fit Sport
2015 Honda Fit EX
http://motorsport.zyyz.com
Money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.

Yes I am glad they did not have that device when I was 16. My first speeding ticket was for 86 in a 55. I was lucky because the cop clocked me in the exit lane for my exit off of US 52. If he had been pointing the other way up the road he would have told me what 7200 rpm in 4 th gear of a Datsun 510 works out to be. The speedo pegs at 120.

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

there was the case of the rental company from conn. that put gps units in their cars. if they downloaded that a customer had been speeding in the rental, they fined them. thankfully it was deemed illegal by the courts.

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they misunderestimated me.