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Watch Your Driving, Kids: Questions

Directions: Read the article from The Washington Post and answer the questions IN
COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. What is this article mainly about?
a. Parents installing cameras in their teens cars to monitor the teens driving habits.
b. Teens making YouTube videos that film their unsafe driving practices.
c. A description of a type of camera that is triggered by unusual driving maneuvers.
d. Parents offering their teen drivers new driving privileges when they drive safely.
2. What is the reason that many parents are installing the cameras in their teens vehicles?
a. A law has been passed to require these cameras in teens vehicles.
b. The DriveCam company has offered them to parents for free.
c. Teens want their driving practices to be monitored on camera so they can drive more
safely.
d. The number of car crashes among teen drivers is high due to their lack of driving
experience.
3. According to the article, why is this camera system a sore spot with some teens?
a. Their parents are able to watch their driving habits on an online video.
b. The camera system causes teen drivers to lose their drivers licenses.
c. The teens do not enjoy being constantly watched while they drive.
d. The camera only uploads unsafe driving practices.
4. Which quote best supports the idea that the DriveCam improves teen driving?
a. Such accidents are often caused not by alcohol or overt recklessness but by simple
driver inexperience.
b. Richardson has tried every possible angle to convince his daughter that the camera is
a good idea.
c. I feel like Im being baby-sat, like Im being watched constantly. It drives me nuts,
said Stacie.
d. The six people who triggered the camera most frequently in the beginning, did so
86% less later on.
5. Why does the author include the story of Ken Richardson and his teen daughter, Stacie, who
has a DriveCam installed in her car?
a. To show that parents and teens alike love the DriveCam
b. To show that parents and teens both hate the DriveCam
c. To show the benefits and problems parents and teens encounter when using the
DriveCam
d. To show how much trouble parents will have if they install DriveCam on their teens
vehicles

6. Is the DriveCam a good or bad way to help teens drive safely? Use at least 2 details from the
text to support your answer.

7. Suppose that your parents/guardians decided to place a DriveCam in your car. How would
you react to this? What would you say to them?

8. In the article, Daniel McGehee says, Really, the single most dangerous thing we let our
children do is drive a car. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

9. Are there other, better ways we could teach our teenagers how to drive safely? If so, what are
they?

10. Some teenagers might say that having a DriveCam is an invasion of privacy, but their parents
would say the DriveCam is there to keep them safe. Is it okay to invade someones privacy in
order to keep them safe? Why or why not?