Handing the car keys to your teenager can be unnerving. Driving is a rite of passage for teens. But it can be pure hell for parents.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tracks teenage car accidents. Teens 16-18 are more likely to be in accidents. In fact, they’re four times as likely to crash as older drivers. More than 5,000 teens died in accidents in 2006.

You can teach your teen driver everything you know. But you can’t always be in the passenger seat. Teens my not follow parents' guidance on their own. Even if they do, their inexperience can make them careless and easily distracted.

What if there was a way to ride along wherever they go? Some innovative gadgets make it easier to keep tabs on young drivers. The information you’ll gain can help you better educate your teenagers.

Tools to keep track

TravelEyes2 is a small GPS unit. You can throw it in the glove box. But it’s also small enough to hide if you want to. It will record the speed and direction of the car. It will display this information on a map. You download this data to your computer to view it.