Maybe I'm Creepy

I think we can all agree that there is a thin line between careful and creepy. GP tracking your teen's car might be considered “creepy” to them – but it’s a cheap way to ensure your own peace of mind.


Truth is, teenagers don’t like additional oversight. The thrill of autonomy that goes along with being solo behind the wheel of a 3000 pound automobile is exhilarating. The world is your oyster. Nobody can “rule” you.

Any parent will agree that teens need more oversight than any other living organism. It’s a medical fact that the frontal lobe of their brain, the part that regulates common sense, doesn't quite function at 100% yet. As parents, we are generally helpless. There are times when the fear of our child being hurt takes our breath away.

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death in 16-19 year olds.Why wouldn’t a parent want another tool that gives an additional element of safety? It certainly can't hurt.

DashTrac lets parents spend a little more time in the virtual passenger seat without ruining the thrill of independence. GPS tracking lets you know where the car is at all times and what type of driving behavior your child exhibits.

If your kid is Houdini (which many of them are) the nice thing is – AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHERE THE CAR IS.

Monitored Drivers Are Safer Drivers

Say what you will, but when someone knows they're being watched, they are less likely to do bad things.

San Diego alone reduced the number of car accidents caused by drivers who run red lights by 44 percent in areas with the cameras.  At the same time, red light running auto accidents increased by 14 percent when the camera program was suspended.

Do we really think having a GPS tracking device in a teenager's car won't help them to be more responsible drivers? I know for a fact that my child drives more responsibly when he knows he is being watched. We're past the point of me wanting to know where he is at every moment, but we both like to know where his when he's lost!

DashTrac is economical peace of mind.

DashTrac Announces Landmarks and Geofence Violation Alerts

Imagine if you could get an email alert when your son or daughter entered the school parking lot. And another one when they left? Better than that – if you could also get an alert if the vehicle breaches its “virtual fence” during school hours?


Landmarks and geofences are a wonderful thing. A landmark is point of your choosing. DashTrac gives the ability to draw a circular perimeter around that point. So, say you want to “landmark” your daughter’s boyfriend’s house, you will receive an alert when her vehicle breaches that circle. A geofence is the actual circle. The options are unlimited. The basic choices are easy.

KEEP IN: Set up the geofence to alert you during specific hours if the vehicle leaves the predetermined zone. Geofence the school, spouses’ place of work (yes, sorry to say, people do that!), your company during work hours, etc.

KEEP OUT: Set up the geofence that sets off an alert if Sally visits Johnny’s house on a school night. Got a particular problem with your employees sneaking off to a local hangout during business hours? BUSTED!

Landmarks and geofences – with alerts - are unique to DashTrac. It's all validated with GPS accuracy using a small GPS tracking device that fits easily into a vehicle's OBD port. Find out more by visiting http://www.dashtrac.com/.

Get up to $100 off DashTrac for a limited time only by using the coupon code: TEENS.

Where's my car?

Great news recently released by USF. Proteins released by people with rheumatoid arthritis dramatically reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, and when administrated to mice, actually reversed memory impairment. Researchers found that this protein (GM-CSF) stimulates the body’s natural scavenger cells to attack, and even remove, Alzheimer’s deposits in the brain.


Mathematically it also means those of us with aching hips will likely never suffer from the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s. And now I have no medical excuse for the fact that I can never find my car at the mall. It’s totally genetic. And I don’t take after anyone strange.

My mother once called the police because her car was stolen. While they were filling out the report, the car was “recovered” from behind our bank building, where in fact, she had parked it. Once I found her keys in the freezer. Then there was the time she drove home from the local pool with my little brother on the car roof. He managed to hold on to the luggage rack for 5 miles.

If you have never suffered the humiliation of riding around for two hours (every side of Dillard’s) in the parking lot security cart, clicking the panic button on your key alarm, praying that something happens – you really haven’t lived. Especially if it’s over 100 degrees outside and there’s a pungent Chinese restaurant dumpster on the route. Over and over….

Embrace GPS tracking technology! DashTrac is so accurate. If I lose my car, I can call ANYONE to find it for me online. Sorry, Mall Cop. Our relationship is over.

MORE Proof that teenagers are amazing!

Imagine having a person you don’t trust in charge of the thing you love most. That’s my definition of parenting a teenager.


The president of our company has a DashTrac on his son’s car. The child KNOWS it’s on his car and he STILL does stupid things! Kids amaze me.

One evening last week he told his parents he had a meeting at work, so he needed to go to the mall (where he works) for this very important, mandatory employee meeting. He assured his parents it would probably last an hour, which meant he was scheduled to be home at about 9:30pm.

This kills me. At 9:30 he calls his sister’s cell. “Tell Mom and Dad my meeting is gonna run late. There’s nothing I can do about it.” OK folks, let me repeat that he KNOWS the DashTrac GPS tracking device is on his car.

Then he commenced to leave the mall, in his car, with the tracking device – and head to the local bar district. All the while his Dad was watching the entire maneuver via home computer.

Nobody is immune. Everyone with a teenager lives with a terrorist version of someone that they love very much.

Rudy On The Move

I hate to sound like some old drunk at the end of the bar, but when I went to college I didn’t have a car. I didn’t have an American Express card and I didn’t have parents paying tuition. Know what I had? I had a scholarship, snow boots and a clue.

Dammit Rudy ran out of travel budget. Translated that means he spent his card to the limit and now it won’t work. I’m pretty certain he’s out of gas somewhere between Maryland and Alabama, but can’t really bet on it, because I don’t know exactly where he is. Once again, I will rely on the kindness of strangers and the grace of God to get the world’s most clueless human back to college.

Rudy Strikes Again

Who drives 600 miles to an unknown destination, breaks into a house that might be his sister’s (based on a photo of someone that looks like her roommate and a Dark Crystal video) and falls asleep on the couch? Dammit Rudy.

“I didn’t really break in. The window was easy to force open.” Not exactly what I wanted to hear. Either my daughter lives in constant danger of some maniac breaking into her house or my son is sleeping on some nice people’s couch. Either situation is cause for concern.

Are You Kidding Me?

Dammit Rudy. Now he's in Maryland.

No cell phone (can't find the charger) and armed with a GPS for Dummies. He spontaneously drove from Alabama to visit his big sister before college starts.

Apparently the fact that he didn't have her address or phone number was no deterrent to the sheer joy of taking a trip.

Are You a Driving Role Model For Your Teen?

Are you teaching your teenager bad driving habits? I complain about my son all of the time, but this morning it hit me. I have contributed to the driving mess he is.

A recent survey sponsored by AAA and Seventeen magazine revealed that 86% of teens admit to driving while distracted. What amazed me were the distractions. Music, food and cell phones. Adults are no less guilty of the same, and I fear we have sent the wrong message to these kids from the very start. We are a generation of muli-taskers, and driving isn't a sacred single-task event.

Do You Wonder?

My son, Dammit Rudy, got a $560 speeding ticket last week. This was about a week after the $260 ticket for crossing center line (texting) and about a month after the$180 ticket he got exceeding the speed limit. Dammit Rudy is not my favorite child right now.

Apparently there is a difference between "speeding" and "exceeding the speed limit." Who knew?

How DashTrac Works

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Is driving a right or a privilege?

First, let’s look at this literally. In some states, a 14 year-old can legally take a 4000 pound killing machine out on an open highway with little or no supervision.

It should be no surprise that the correlation between legal driving age, graduated driver licensing laws, and the teenage driving fatality rate in each state is staggering. In some states, all you have to do is pass a simple (5th grade reading level!) test, navigate around some construction cones, and POOF! You have the RIGHT to drive.

Unfortunately you also have the right to die young.

Are Teenagers Too Stupid to Drive?

Apparently it is not a matter of intelligence when a teen is behind the wheel but the actual development of their brain at such a young age.  In this article The Teenage Brain they show visual proof of how a human brain doesn't fully evolve until its early 20's. 

What does that say about how our teens drive?

Do girls speed more than boys?

Everyone knows that teenage girls are more careful than boys when it comes to driving, right?


Wrong. A recent survey revealed that girls are now driving more aggressively. According to Allstate Insurance Co., 48% of female teenage drivers revealed that they are likely to drive 10 mph over the speed limit. On the other hand, only 36% of teenage boys admitted to speeding.

Why DashTrac Works

Johnny drives stupid

From the time your child was born, chances are they existed within a fairly supervised
environment. Right up until the time they got their wheels. And so began their voyage
into the outside world - beyond your direct supervision – equipped with the largest,
fastest, most dangerous “toy” imaginable. The automobile.