'And we won't do any management changes for the foreseeable future'. (Which isn't usually that long, oddly)
Does Life360 include an ankle monitor? I jest. I was abnormal apparently. As a new driver, I had a respect for the laws of physics, and though I 'drove fast', I never had an incident until an 80 year-old woman tried to turn in front of me, and I swerved and hit a mailbox. I did hit patch ice and end up in a ditch, so that gave me a razor sharp respect for winter driving too. But so many kids die testing those laws of physics, and I don't know if anything would be able to stop that happening. But monitoring your children like they are on house arrest is rather draconian, to me.
Yeah, I haven't had kids, but if you have to be able to monitor them 24x7, why let them out of the house. I'm in favor of delaying driver training and getting a license, which angers many, but if your kids can't handle it at 17, make it 20. It might save lives. And parents that start training early would seem to have a leg up on having kids that survive their first 5 years of driving.
Maybe there should be a cheap car for parents to buy for their kids. Something like the Datsun I had for years. It *could* do 65, but it had to be down hill, with a tail wind. I heard of a classmate of my brother's whose brain dead parents bought her a Pontiac GTO muscle car. They might as well have bought her an AK47 and armor piercing bullets, or a bazooka. Talk about idiotic parental behavior. But, like I said, I was abnormal as a kid. I had a healthy respect for pain, and tried to avoid it as much as I could. I saw too many classmates and others at the school end up maimed, or dead, because of stupidity.
But stupid kids... One mother, in the town I went to college, was watching the news on a TV in their break room as she was getting ready to start her day after arriving, and there was a 'breaking news' flash about a car crash. The idiot local station showed the back of the car, sticking out of a grove of trees, and didn't block out the license plate. It was her car. Her son had dropped her off, and was going to school. The car was filled with other kids, and flew off a railroad crossing, bounced down the road, and missed a corner. All in the car died. 8 kids. Her son was at the wheel, showing off. That railroad crossing was well known. Stupid human tricks. Spoiled kid. Wanting to show off. But monitoring her offspring wasn't likely to have stopped that from happening. What a horrific incident. Realizing your kid is an idiot and shouldn't have a license is saving so much time and agony. Give them a car that couldn't do 60 on a dare. *shrug*