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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for the feedback.  The distracted driving issue is important, but I feel comfortable my child won't do that, or that we can at least limit it.  But I'll definitely give that more thought.  I also trust her to be where she says she's going to be.  So this isn't a location issue.  It's solely a speeding issue.

Even though I never broke curfew, was a straight A student, never really lied to my parents (at least not about huge important things), I was a total speed demon, going over 100 mph quite often when driving home from school in the afternoons.  I didn't have other kids in the car at the time, but I was racing with other kids driving their own cars home.   I never got a ticket, but I must have done it a 100 times or more.

All of my friends who died in high school and college, died because of car accidents.   I have one friend who suffered a TBI from hitting a deer while speeding.  She will never be able to live on her own.  I have one friend who went to jail after hitting and killing a pedestrian who was walking across the road near Merriweather Post after a concert.    The U.S. has one of the highest child accidental death rates of developed nations, and a significant portion of that is teen driving.   400,000 teens are in serious car accidents each year.

My kid has a heavy foot.  This is her weakness (as it always was mine).   I want something to monitor that when she's a new driver.  [/quote]

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