Numpty Gadget: Cyber adult to aid teen drivers
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www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-355314,00.html 
quote:Words fail me ....
AN electronic “back-seat driver” will allow parents to track their offspring’s journeys, play a recording of their voices urging the children to slow down and make a report of driving errors to discuss at home, writes John Harlow.
SafeForce, which will cost about £200, is being tested on learner drivers in California and is expected to be available in Britain by the end of the year.
The device — based on data recorders developed for aircraft and satellite-location systems built for ambulances — is fitted under car seats and plugged into the dashboard. RoadSafety International (RSI) of Camarillo, California, designed it after a spate of teenage road fatalities in the firm’s small home town. Teenage drivers are killed at twice the rate of other drivers.
One of eight guinea pigs is Mallory Gompert, 17, whose father works for RSI. He fitted the device into her car last winter and it recorded that she was routinely driving at 80mph.
“At first I felt it was an invasion of my privacy. But then I had a reversing incident and a friend u-turned on a busy highway and ended up in a nasty crash,” said Gompert. “So I thought it was time to start learning how to drive more safely and it has worked — the alarms hardly go off at all these days.”
Her friends were unnerved when they heard the alarms: “They begged me not to tell their parents the boxes were available. Certainly the sound of my mom’s voice would scare me.”
Why not get a chip implanted, which controls you behaviour?
This chip will stay in radio controlled contact with the stationary parent's (better: government's) Windows PC.
Numpty proof drag n'drop pnp configuration with default libraries for social standards
Yours for only $999!
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all I tried to express:
>> Edited by Bodo on Sunday 14th July 21:53
This chip will stay in radio controlled contact with the stationary parent's (better: government's) Windows PC.
Numpty proof drag n'drop pnp configuration with default libraries for social standards
Yours for only $999!
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all I tried to express:
>> Edited by Bodo on Sunday 14th July 21:53
GET THE NUMPTIES OFF THE ROAD IF THEY CANT DRIVE PROPERLY 
It occured to me that when I was 17 and driving my dads car he had no need of such a device to tell how I was driving. Possibly because he was paying attention some tell tale signs were available to him. The fact that tyre life was reduced from about 22000 miles to 6000 overnight and a couple of small dings on the rear wing appeared (not because I hit anything but because the wooden tool box in the boot was being flung around with such force that it dented the car from the inside) My point about the toolbox being too big and heavy is one which he still argues to this day more than 25 years later. It all came to a head when he came home from work one friday sporting 4 new crossply tyres despite being advised by me to fit the new radials. That weekend I borrowed the car for a trip the south coast. In less than 700 fun packed near miss filled and crash free miles I returned the car complete with 4 tyres on which there was not a trace of tread pattern left. after the initial argument I agreed to buy the car. 
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