http://www.wgal.com/video/13606874/index.html

Ok as a parent I'm all for this but when I think back to my days of just getting my license.... it would make me feel like my privacy was invaded. Still, I can recall at least 2 fender benders that I don't think would have ever happened given what we were doing at the time.

I am seriously considering getting this for the teenager who turns 15 next week and who will start Driver's Ed this coming school year.

I'm about to turn 22. I've never had an accident.

You are a shitty driver, or you aren't. I have been in situations where other people would have crashed. I've seen people go through numerous crashes for no apparent reason. It comes down to a simple question - are you able to drive well?

If your child cannot drive well, then don't give him/her the car until they prove that they can. By putting this camera in their car, you are already operating under the assumption that they will make bad decisions while driving. Save the cash from insurance and this goofy camera and simply withhold the keys.

I thought they were already offering discounts by monitoring the chip inthe car gps for speed whereabouts ect. allstate maybe.

I have a small child, not a teenager, but I can't see myself as a parent spying on my kid. If I raise her properly and trust my parenting skills, I will either trust her or not let her drive. I won't spy on her. The parents that buy these items were probably the same parents that had their kids in leashes because they weren 't able to parent their children.

Easy to say if you've had full control over the upbringing of your child I suppose. In my situation I wasn't so lucky. I got full control at 13, she's turning 15 next week. I'm more concerned about her friends than anything.

Smart Teen Solution (http://latinienterprises.com/images/Equip-%20coating%20&Chewing%20Gum-photostogo-580069_400.jpg). :D

Having been a teen recently, I think this is a pretty good idea. 1 teen is generally responsible, but you get 5 in a car and you get stupid. My parents had a rule that we weren't allowed to drive our friends, weren't allowed to use the radio, etc. Well generally we broke that rule most of the time. The facts are teens DO cause the majority of accidents and are the most expensive to insure as a whole - so if using a camera brings the cost of insurance down for the better drivers, why not?

By having a camera in the car watching your teen, or a GPS tracker, you are activly showing you dont trust your kid. By not trusting your kid while they are not at home, you are infact treating them more like a young child than a young adult. Also, camera or not, nearly getting in a wreck will make you drive more cautiously.

By having a camera in the car watching your teen, or a GPS tracker, you are activly showing you dont trust your kid.I'm not convinced that this is a bad thing.

If you show your kid you don't trust him/her, they will just be sneakier at getting away with things. He/she won't change how they act, they will just be better at hiding it.

Obviously a parent can't trust a kid all the time, but to resort to spying on the kid is just going to cause damage to the parent/child relationship.

No matter how long you try to play big brother, the kid is eventually going to be out from under you. I know people that had obsessively risk-adverse parents that controlled and "protected" their every move. They never matured or had a chance to learn from those mistakes you need to make.

If you never take the training wheels off, you're just putting them at a disadvantage later in life.

/agree Sanchek

I've had a friend since Kindergarten. His parents controlled his every move. Stupid curfews (Up through his junior year of college, when he was home his curfew was midnight). He has to check in like every 2 hours, or they freak out. They would control who he hung out with, bastardizing some people for absolutely no reason other than their ignorance. They injected themselves into every single facet of his life.

Now he has severe emotional issues. His relationship with his parents is not good. He has been with a girlfriend who we know has cheated on him numerous times, but he refuses to believe it. He left his university to return home. I doubt he will ever graduate, and even if he does, he does not possess the mentality of someone who will succeed in this world. He has never not had someone keeping watch over him 24/7.

The camera in the doesn't stop crashes, as evidenced by the footage I saw on the news, but it does allow people to see what happened right before the crash.

While this could be a useful tool for pointing out mistakes, if it became common I've no doubt in my mind that insurance companies would start demanding the footage from these devices so that they could start denying claims.

I'm more concerned about her friends than anything.

If you are concerned because they are not good...then I will tell you what my mother did when she had her concerns...hehehe She put my brother on restriction for the whole summer and they two friends she did not like, found other friends and left my brother alone. My brother was pissed and my mother did get lucky and the boys moved away. Come to find out later one of the boys were arrested for shop lifting later. I know my brother was glad he was not friends with them when he was older. I truly believe if you can help guide them to good friends alot of your problems can be eliminated. http://www.ayonae.ro/images/smilies/smile.gif

I put my daughter in the marching band and my son will go too.....nothing beat good ole band geeks for friends. http://www.ayonae.ro/images/smilies/smile.gif

I put my daughter in the marching band and my son will go too.....nothing beat good ole band geeks for friends. http://www.ayonae.ro/images/smilies/smile.gif


Yeah, I guess if I could have spent time with Allyson Hannigan at band camp, I would have given marching band some thought.

I put my daughter in the marching band and my son will go too.....nothing beat good ole band geeks for friends.
Or, more importantly, you know those will be their only friends if they're in the band?

Or, more importantly, you know those will be their only friends if they're in the band?

LOL...not its not! LOL...but most are....and that is OKAY! :)