Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding

An anonymous reader writes "A teen in Massachusetts has created a device that he hopes will help prevent traffic fatalities among teenagers. The unit plugs into a car and uses GPS to track and report on speeding — but only while the car exceeds a limit set by parents, so as to minimize invasion of the teen's privacy."

Comments

Re:You learn through mistakes

[shaneh0]

This is actually amusing. Your argument is that speed limits are "unsafely low." As evidence, you suggest that the person driving the speed limit is at a higher risk then those driving twenty miles over the limit. But, as you have kindly explained, it's unsafe to drive the speed limit ONLY because the drivers around you are SPEEDING.

That was some interesting logic you used, but I don't buy it. Yes, the guy doing 20 miles less then the traffic flow IS an obstacle. But it's not his fault. It's people like you, who feel you're entitled to drive 75 in a 55, who look at the guy driving 55 as the problem.

I have to agree that it sounds like you're just a little bitter over some speeding tickets. Yes, they're a revenue-generator. No, that is not a bad thing.

Let me ask you 2 things:

1) If they set the limit to 75, do you think people would stop speeding? I don't think they would. I think you'd have people doing 85-90.
2) Even if everyone did stop violating the limit, do you think the government will operate w/ less revenue? I think you'd see them make up for it elsewhere. Higher fees on licenses, license platers, sales taxes, property taxes, etc.

But what do you think?

Re:Have you raised a teenager?

[LordKazan]

How about trying to actually refute my point by point?

Your statement is presumptious and arrogant. You are assuming that one cannot have knowledge without 1st hand expirience which is patently false. Maybe I'm just more observant than you but I can learn from the mistakes of those around me so that I never make those mistakes myself, and I can read the research of the best child behavioralists and developmental psychologists on the planet.

All your posts has done is to further perpetuate the arrogance of "I'm a parent and therefore I'm automatically right"

Re:Have you raised a teenager?

[LordKazan]

Wait for your day, son.

and this is the most telling of all - you cannot actually handle debating with someone so instead you start demeaning them based upon their age.

That's very mature of you. I hope you taught that to your son, arrogance and ageism will really help him protect himself from reality in later life.