Earlier this week, I wrote about how parents in Alabama, along with a local tv news station, got together to get a little information on one teen‘s driving habits.

The teenager in question was not told beforehand that his driving habits were going to be monitored using a GPS tracking device. And, as you can imagine, he was not happy when he found out what had happened.

The teen denied going at a rate of 95 miles per hour, as the tracking device indicated. He also did not want to give his parents any information on where he had been one Friday night. The GPS tracking device not only recorded his speed, it also kept track of where he went. One of his stops was at a location that was unknown to his parents.

The tv news station paid for the tacking device and presumably aired footage about this experiment. They had a therapist on hand to provide commentary. The therapist pointed out that parents can expect backlash if they track teen drivers and do not tell them

You may or may not agree with what these parents did. They themselves wondered if they did the right thing in tracking their son’s driving habits without telling him and while cooperating with the media.

However, if you have teen drivers in your house, you may still want to consider installing a tracking device on the vehicles they drive so that you can be aware of how they are driving and where they are going. Unlike the parents in case, you may elect to tell your teen that they are being tracked so that they will be aware and hopefully engage in good driving habits so you need not intervene.

Visit the Rocky Mountain Tracking website the check out teen tracking devices.