Parents' gizmos high on tech, low on trust

[Mark Holtz]

From SF Gate:

Parents' gizmos high on tech, low on trustPaige White was surprised when her parents figured out soon after she started driving last year that she'd gone 9 miles to a party, not 4 miles to the friend's house she'd told them she was visiting. It seemed to her almost as if her car was bugged.

It was.

Paige's parents had installed a device in their daughter's SUV that can tell them not only how far she's driven, but how fast and whether she's made any sudden stops or hard turns.FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/09/MNGIFJSAHJ1.DTL&type=tech)

[Nick]

Trust, but verify.

A hard lesson for parents to learn is that their perfect little 14-15 year-old darlings lie -- a lot. The smart ones will even park their cars at their friend's house and have their 27 year-old pedo boyfriends pick them up for a night of drinking, drugs and wild unprotected sex.

Those were the days! :grin:

[AllieVi]

... The smart ones will even park their cars at their friend's house and have their 27 year-old pedo boyfriends pick them up for a night of drinking, drugs and wild unprotected sex. ...That was my first thought, too.

[DonLandis]

I had an odometer gadget that was fitted on the inner wheel of our trucks I got from an industrial supply house back in the mid 70's that tracked mileage. I used it to nail some of my drivers who were using the company trucks to run their own short backhauls, pocketing the money.