Aftermarket GPS Trackers are available for as little as $100. Everywhere the car goes, and for how long are recorded. Some of them even display the maximum and minimum speeds between stops.

Absolutely useless unless everything can be reversed for a very low cost. Incredible waste of money on a practically useless car. If you think top speed and back seats regulate "MAH TEENS RISKEY BEE-HAEV-YOUR," then you need a serious reality check.

Other than no back seat, they are caled "Beaters", which are low value still operable automobiles. Chances are though, teens will use their paren't car for the first stage of training, for practical, legal, and maybe economical reasons.

Seems like mandatory drivers education and stricter license processes would help with teens (and first-time drivers) learning what they need to operate the car and gain experience.....but that probably only addresses a small percentage of accidents that involve teens. Like all age groups, drinking, distractions and aggressiveness are the biggest accident causes and a polka-dot sticker (that the teens will cover up) is not likely to curb those numbers. We need to find a way to curb drinking and driving (breath-alyzer ignitions?) and reduce distractions (stop automobiles that double as offices and rec rooms).

Why is it teen drivers that get picked on... sure i agree that their are moronic dangerous teen drivers out there but why sterotype the safe sensitive ones. i think that for the first three years of driving teens should be forbidden to drive anything higher than a 4 cylinder or any sort of performance car for that matter unless a special license is obtained. Its been proven that fresh drivers are some of the safest on the road, try taking the 90 year old blind deaf drivers that do half the speed limit and still think its the 20's. they are usually the ones that cause road rage and irratic driving, as the people behind get so damn irritated and annoyed that will do dangerous things to pass them. its always the teens getting blamed, never the oldies.

Could work as part of a X-month program, with reduced insurance costs, and with the car later being leased/passed to the next learner. The reports might make the insurance companies "happy". Maybe the period depends on logging enough "quality" hours with a low ratio of fouls.

My annoyance from my kids: no music while learning. Focus on the road, please, my little princess....

Heck, the automated report of where/when princess went would be an eye-opener (I don't see the library on the report...)

BTW, the "no back seat" would, in spite of some limitations, significantly reduce many risks. Not sure why some ridicule this, but you have a good concept here.

I could see such a car being used after drunk/reckless driving, too. If you tell the judge you just have to get to work... then maybe this would be an easy, common option -- rent this as part of the sentence.

classicsat beat me to it, they're called beaters, and they've been around since cars were invented :p You want a car with no back seat for passengers? Take the back seat out! Or buy a Fiero. Doesn't go over 55mph? Install a throttle stop, easily improvised on any vehicle. Cheap insurance? Just make sure it's an old piece of junk! Distinctive color? That's why god invented spray paint, my friend :) The list goes on, to make a long story short, a teenager's first car can be easily produced on a one-off basis by the parent and/or the teen in question, and chances are you'll both have a lotta fun in the process...

Fifty years ago they had the exact vehicle type you're thinking of. It was the Nash Metropolitan. ^_^