{"id":1910,"date":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/18\/2002-04-18-homespun-services-keep-tabs-on-teen-drivers\/"},"modified":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T12:00:00","slug":"2002-04-18-homespun-services-keep-tabs-on-teen-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/04\/18\/2002-04-18-homespun-services-keep-tabs-on-teen-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homespun Services Keep Tabs on Teen Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=c\/a\/2002\/04\/15\/MN19678.DTL\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 15, 2002: Sunnyvale police officer Russell Howard has witnessed many careless driving moves by teenagers in his 20-year career. In his dual role as an emergency medic, he has also seen the fatal consequences that can result. Now Howard runs a small sideline business that, for a $50 annual fee, supplies bumper stickers that ask: &#8220;How&#8217;s my teen driving?&#8221; An 800 number allows others to weigh in, and reports are passed on to parents via phone, fax or e-mail. &#8220;A lot of people are trying to get this going,&#8221; said Merry Banks, manager of the California State Automobile Association&#8217;s Traffic Safety Department. The stickers remain rare. Howard&#8217;s 1 1\/2-year-old service has fewer than 50 subscribers. Yet other services have grown over time, along with awareness of the issue. Danville&#8217;s safedriver.com, nearing its third year, boasts about 900 participants in the Bay Area and beyond. Wisconsin&#8217;s tell-my-mom.com has similar numbers and even has a European offshoot. Nationally, motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for teenagers. One parent confessed his teenager, &#8220;hated the sign.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 15, 2002: Sunnyvale police officer Russell Howard has witnessed many careless driving moves,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}