TY - JOUR
T1 - Spying or steering? Views of parents of young novice drivers on the use and ethics of driver-monitoring technologies
AU - Guttman, Nurit
AU - Lotan, Tsippy
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by a grant by the Or Yarok Association for Safer Driving. We would like to thank the participants in the study, Moran Avital, Einat Grimberg and Anat Gesser-Edelsburg for their help with the questionnaire items, Anat Oren and Karin Blanero from the B.I. and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research who conducted the survey, and Rebekah Tukachinsky and Shira Freedman-Goldman for their help with the analysis and manuscript preparation.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - In-vehicle technologies that document driving practices have the potential to enhance the driving safety of young drivers, but their installation depends largely on their parents' willingness and raises ethical dilemmas. This study investigated, using closed and open-ended questions, the views of 906 parents of young drivers in Israel regarding their willingness to install such a technology, and their conceptions of social norms and ethical issues associated with the technology and of factors that would encourage or discourage parents to adopt it. Most believed parents should feel morally obligated to install it. When cost was not a consideration, most said they would, and believed other parents would be willing to install the technology. Fewer (about half) expressed willingness to install it after being told about its estimated cost. Monetary cost was rated as a barrier to install it by about half. Environmental considerations were viewed as an incentive. Parents who supported the installation believed it would serve as a trigger for parent-young driver communication but those who did not thought it would erode trust in the parent-young driver relationship. Most said parents should have access to the monitoring data. Policy implications regarding issues of privacy and resources for parents are discussed.
AB - In-vehicle technologies that document driving practices have the potential to enhance the driving safety of young drivers, but their installation depends largely on their parents' willingness and raises ethical dilemmas. This study investigated, using closed and open-ended questions, the views of 906 parents of young drivers in Israel regarding their willingness to install such a technology, and their conceptions of social norms and ethical issues associated with the technology and of factors that would encourage or discourage parents to adopt it. Most believed parents should feel morally obligated to install it. When cost was not a consideration, most said they would, and believed other parents would be willing to install the technology. Fewer (about half) expressed willingness to install it after being told about its estimated cost. Monetary cost was rated as a barrier to install it by about half. Environmental considerations were viewed as an incentive. Parents who supported the installation believed it would serve as a trigger for parent-young driver communication but those who did not thought it would erode trust in the parent-young driver relationship. Most said parents should have access to the monitoring data. Policy implications regarding issues of privacy and resources for parents are discussed.
KW - In-vehicle safety technologies
KW - Parent-young driver communication
KW - Survey method
KW - Young drivers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649983740&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.aap.2010.09.011
DO - 10.1016/j.aap.2010.09.011
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AN - SCOPUS:78649983740
VL - 43
SP - 412
EP - 420
JO - Accident Analysis and Prevention
JF - Accident Analysis and Prevention
SN - 0001-4575
IS - 1
ER -
