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Irvine, California: For parents of newly licensed teenagers using family safety apps like iSharing, summer often brings a mix of newfound freedom and underlying anxiety. While teens are excited to hit the road, the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day is notoriously known as the “100 Deadliest Days” for adolescent drivers.
Despite the stark reality of summer driving risks, industry data reveals a surprising trend: parents are often more focused on the steep financial toll of insuring a teen than the actual habits they practice behind the wheel. The makers of iSharing, a family safety and GPS tracking app, are urging parents to flip that script.
The Summer Spike in Teen Crashes
When school lets out, teen driving increases—and so do the tragic outcomes. Fatal crashes involving teen drivers jump by roughly 30% during the summer months. To put that into perspective, of the 2,897 people who died in teen-driver-involved crashes in 2023, 860 of those fatalities occurred during these 100 days.
The Cost vs. Safety Dilemma
It is easy to see why parents are distracted by the financial burden. Adding a 16-year-old to a parent’s auto insurance policy cost an average of $5,740 per year in late 2025—a roughly $700 increase since 2023. Remarkably, adding a teen driver to a policy is now statistically more expensive than adding a driver with a speeding ticket, an at-fault accident, or even a DUI.
This sticker shock heavily influences parental priorities. According to a CarInsurance.com poll, 57.3% of parents cite cost increases as their primary concern when insuring a teen, while only 42.3% say their main focus is teaching good driving habits.
“We get that insurance for teen drivers can be costly,” an iSharing spokesperson noted. “However, in our view, a focus on safety would be better for the driver, the family, and anyone they’re sharing the road with.”
Using Tech to Build Better Habits
Instead of just handing over the keys and hoping for the best, parents can take a proactive approach to their teen’s safety by utilizing real-world driving data. iSharing’s Driving Report feature is designed to help parents coach their kids by tracking specific habits over a 365-day period, trip by trip.
The app provides visibility into critical safety metrics, including:
- Max Speed: The top speed reached during any given trip.
- High Speed: The distance traveled at speeds exceeding 80 mph (130 km/h)—treated as a universal danger threshold rather than a comparison to local speed limits.
- Phone Usage: Detection of whether the driver is interacting with their smartphone while the vehicle is in motion.
- Hard Braking: Sudden decreases in speed of more than 7 mph per second, which can indicate distracted driving or tailgating.
- Rapid Acceleration: Sudden increases in speed of more than 8 mph per second.
By shifting the focus from the cost of the premium to the quality of the driving, parents can use these insights to correct dangerous behaviors before they lead to an accident.
To learn more about tracking teen driving habits and family location sharing, visit iSharingSoft.com.
About iSharing
iSharingSoft, Inc. is the creator of iSharing, a location-sharing and family safety app for iOS and Android, trusted by over 66 million users worldwide and rated 4.8 stars. The app offers real-time GPS tracking, 365 days of location history, place-based alerts, driving-safety notifications, and one-tap SOS. iSharing is free to download, with optional Premium upgrades available. iSharingSoft is headquartered in Irvine, California.
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