“Teen Arrive Alive is a private company founded specifically to provide support to parents who are concerned about the driving safety of their teenagers. Our goal is to bring the teen problem to the forefront, assist in critical education, and recognise the positive driving behaviours of our nation’s teens.”
The company claims that nearly 78% of teenagers in the US are ticketed or crash by the time they are 18. Among other services, the Teen Arrive Alive organisation offers GPS tracking for teenagers to parents who may be worried that their child is late, missing, lost, abducted or not driving very well. Using a mobile phone and GPS technology, parents can track their teenager’s driving in real time. The route shows up on a digital map showing the speed travelled.
I have researched the website and discussed the benefits and drawbacks of the use of this technology to ‘protect’ teenagers. (IntelliOne Technologies Corporation aquired Teen Arrive Alive in 2007).
Benefits:
► Are that it is likely that the teenagers are going to dive more sensibly, this is because they are aware that their parents are able to watch them.
► Parameters are set and when these are exceeded an alarm sounds which alerts both the driver and the parents
Drawbacks:
► The teenager does not have any freedom, they are always being watched.
► This is the ‘big brother’ effect as they will always be under surveillance.
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