She has had a few friends who have gotten into car accidents. Thankfully, none of them was fatal, but some of them have been quite serious. Every time something like this happens we try to talk about it and hope she learns something - so she doesn't get into an accident herself. Teen Driving is the most dangerous activity teenagers engage in, but, because they're teenagers, they don't believe it will happen to them. That's something that happens to someone else.
Since we can't always be in the car with Beth, this little device called the Personal Mechanic would help us to know how she's really driving, and not just what she tells us. It plugs in under the steering wheel and records information from the car, then all that information can be retrieved by connecting to a computer and logging into the Personal Mechanic website. Armed with the hard facts, we could address how she is driving and hopefully help her to be a better driver. She thinks something like this is a big invasion of her privacy and that we have no right to 'check up' on her. The simple fact that she'd be aware that someone was checking up on her and paying attention to how she drives would probably make her more careful.
Unfortunately the Personal Mechanic is out of stock, so I can't check to see how much it costs to get one. On the other hand, how much is the life of my daughter worth?
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Aurora is counting down the days until she is old enough to drive....I'm counting down the days until I have a stroke.
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