We all know that young driver car insurance can be a touch expensive because of the number accidents that youngsters have, but one US motor insurance firm has come up with a novel way of addressing the problem.
American Family Insurance has offered the pupils of a Wisconsin high school the opportunity to have video cameras installed in their cars that will record any erratic driving and email it directly to their parents.
As part of a three-month trial program, the cameras - which video both the road and the driver - will tape the ten seconds before and after any sudden stop or swerve. The idea is that the young driver and their parents will be able to see where they're going wrong, and so hopefully change their driving habits for the better.
18-year-old J.T. Roach thinks the system will work and said, "At least for me, knowing my parents would see everything when I might be getting in trouble, I know I'd have to be dealing with them. I'd slow down."
As in Britain, teenage drivers in the US are among the most expensive to insure, and American authorities reckon that an enormous 41% of all teen deaths are caused by road accidents.
A spokesman from the motor insurance firm running the pilot scheme said, "It's certainly to the benefit of young drivers, it's a very dangerous time to be behind the wheel.
"And if this can help them see some of the things they're doing wrong, it's to the benefit of the families and the school, too."
Mike Page from Hoot Car Insurance Services, the online young driver car insurance experts, explained that there were no plans to introduce such a system on this side of the Atlantic, saying, "It does sound like an interesting idea, but it's not something that Hoot Car Insurance Services is planning to get involved with just yet.
"Maybe if these trials prove successful it's something we could look at in the future, but we'll just have to wait and see."