I am wanting to find something for my sons older car.
he will be getting his license soon and we are giving him my 91 camaro. Not my first choice to give a 16 year old, but he is pretty level headed and the car is paid off so it is the best option and close to being the only option at this time.
With that said, I really like the On star system where if the vehicle is in an accident On star is immediately aware of it. plus I would like tracking capabilities. I trust my son so I am not wanting to watch his every movement, but I would like to know where he is if he is late to somewhere.
So the above is what I am looking for, below is a long explanation as to what is leading me to look for a GPS tracking system, more venting I guess than anything
This week was not a good week for out town, a guy I know, whom I have sat around and talked about our kids with, lost his son Sunday night in an accident.
he was 25 years old, a twin and he was engaged two months ago.
real good kid. He lived in Los Angeles. He came up this last weekend to visit his dad for an early fathers day. On the way home Sunday night driving on a two lane road, some azzwipe decided to pass an old van. right where there is a fricken bridge and a river. The only fricken river on this road for miles and the guy decides to pass.
Hit my friends son head on at 95mph. killed himself and my friends son.
He caused the van to go into the river.
My friends other son happened to be a few minutes behind his brother and came up on the van in the water, he knew there was an accident but didn't know his brother was involved, he got the people from the van out of the river.
he called his parents and told them there had been a bad accident and a van was involved, he still had no idea his brother was involved (guess the other vehicles were out of site, it was at night)
so this happened at 8:30 at night. The parents were watching the 11:00pm news and they were covering the accident and they saw their sons car on TV as one of the vehicles in the accident, the contacted the police department, and when they drove down to the PD they were told that yes it was their son and he had died in the accident.
This was Sunday, then Tuesday 3 kids who had just graduated from my sons high school last week died in a car crash.
The car was found at 7am (I think wed morning). it had crashed and all three teenagers were dead.
They had gone to a local gaming casino the previous night to pick up job applications, they were not drinking, they were not speeding, apparently the driver was not familiar with the road and just didn't negotiate a turn.
We talked to a lady last night that works at the high school (my wife knows her) and the three teenagers had called her niece the night of the accident and asked her to go with them and she told them no that she had just got home and didn't want to go back out.
Any kids dying like that sucks, but from what I understand all three of these kids were really good kids, one had a full ride scholarship to the local SU.
The father of one of the three teenagers killed on Tuesday works at the same place as the father of the 25 year old that was killed Sunday night.
It is not like we live in a real small town, but I guess it is small enough.
My son has finished his driving school, has turned 16 and I am taking him down next Tuesday to the DMV for him to take his driving test. I don't think I am looking forward to this next step in parenting, having my teenage son driving.
he will be getting his license soon and we are giving him my 91 camaro. Not my first choice to give a 16 year old, but he is pretty level headed and the car is paid off so it is the best option and close to being the only option at this time.
With that said, I really like the On star system where if the vehicle is in an accident On star is immediately aware of it. plus I would like tracking capabilities. I trust my son so I am not wanting to watch his every movement, but I would like to know where he is if he is late to somewhere.
So the above is what I am looking for, below is a long explanation as to what is leading me to look for a GPS tracking system, more venting I guess than anything
This week was not a good week for out town, a guy I know, whom I have sat around and talked about our kids with, lost his son Sunday night in an accident.
he was 25 years old, a twin and he was engaged two months ago.
real good kid. He lived in Los Angeles. He came up this last weekend to visit his dad for an early fathers day. On the way home Sunday night driving on a two lane road, some azzwipe decided to pass an old van. right where there is a fricken bridge and a river. The only fricken river on this road for miles and the guy decides to pass.
Hit my friends son head on at 95mph. killed himself and my friends son.
He caused the van to go into the river.
My friends other son happened to be a few minutes behind his brother and came up on the van in the water, he knew there was an accident but didn't know his brother was involved, he got the people from the van out of the river.
he called his parents and told them there had been a bad accident and a van was involved, he still had no idea his brother was involved (guess the other vehicles were out of site, it was at night)
so this happened at 8:30 at night. The parents were watching the 11:00pm news and they were covering the accident and they saw their sons car on TV as one of the vehicles in the accident, the contacted the police department, and when they drove down to the PD they were told that yes it was their son and he had died in the accident.
This was Sunday, then Tuesday 3 kids who had just graduated from my sons high school last week died in a car crash.
The car was found at 7am (I think wed morning). it had crashed and all three teenagers were dead.
They had gone to a local gaming casino the previous night to pick up job applications, they were not drinking, they were not speeding, apparently the driver was not familiar with the road and just didn't negotiate a turn.
We talked to a lady last night that works at the high school (my wife knows her) and the three teenagers had called her niece the night of the accident and asked her to go with them and she told them no that she had just got home and didn't want to go back out.
Any kids dying like that sucks, but from what I understand all three of these kids were really good kids, one had a full ride scholarship to the local SU.
The father of one of the three teenagers killed on Tuesday works at the same place as the father of the 25 year old that was killed Sunday night.
It is not like we live in a real small town, but I guess it is small enough.
My son has finished his driving school, has turned 16 and I am taking him down next Tuesday to the DMV for him to take his driving test. I don't think I am looking forward to this next step in parenting, having my teenage son driving.
