Text tells you how your child drives: ‘Black box’ recorders handed to parents in return for lower insurance bills

‘Insurance firms are texting the parents of young motorists to warn them of bad driving by their offspring, it has been reported.

So-called ‘black box’ recorders – tracking devices fitted to cars to record details of speed and braking – are compiling data which is then handed to parents in return for lower insurance bills.

If the driver has a smartphone app with geo-tracking capabilities, the parent can pinpoint the exact road where the bad driving took place.’

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