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COACH IN A BOX; ELECTRONIC UNIT MENTORS YOUNG DRIVERS.(NEWS)(Tiwi)
Byline: KAW
What, yet another black box that uses GPS to let parents monitor their teen drivers? Yes, but the new Tiwi from Inthinc boasts several key differences. First, it's a smart computer that talks to the driver, mentoring much the way parents did from the passenger seat in the learning phase. Second, it's smart enough to know local speed limits. It also can be used as an emergency alert system, notifying authorities in the event of an accident.
Unlike other GPS-based systems marketed for parents of new young drivers, the Tiwi not only watches speed but also matches the car's speed against the local limit.
"Lots of units can tell you that the kid exceeded a preset speed, explains Robert Oosdyke, Inthinc's vice president for consumer sales. "Say you set a limit at 70 mph. Whenever the car goes 70, you get notification. Everybody in this business does that much. But what no one else does yet is tell you the car was going 70 in a 45-mph zone.
The Tiwi will do that, which also allows it to perform the mentoring task.
The box sits on the dash and plugs into the car via the OBD II port. It can be set up to issue a warning: "You're exceeding the speed limit; please slow down. At best, it's a coach in a box. At worst, it's like having a little sister in the back seat saying, "I'm telling Mom if you don't knock it off.
The Tiwi has been endorsed by Ronn Langford of Master-Drive, a driver-education company, one of the presenters at AutoWeek's 2007 Teen Driving Safety Summit.
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