When I was a teenager, I was fairly convinced that my mother either had my car bugged, or worked for the FBI, because no matter where I went or who I was with, she knew. I couldn't do anything without it getting back to her, not that I was trying to get away with anything terrible, but it just got to the point where I stopped trying because it wasn't worth the interrogation later.
Now teenagers may have to deal with their parents literally bugging their cars. Some insurance companies are offering systems that can monitor how well freshly-minted teen drivers are handling Daddy's Escalade. The pilot program by American Family that Alisyn wrote about in March has been a smashing success (figuratively), and will be expanded to 18 states. The systems captures video, GPS data, stats on speed, braking, etc, and send it to the insurance company, where parents can later shave decades off their life at a time by watching the video on the web.
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