?Dad, I?m going to projectile vomit,? I hear my 15-year-old daughter, Noa, say from the passenger seat.
As I bend this 2017 Chevrolet Malibu into the back chicane on M1 Concourse?s 1.5-mile road course, in what I?m sure is a meaningful demonstration of cornering technique, I think to myself: How would she know what kind of vomiting she?d be doing"
And as I get out and give her the keys, I also think: Aren?t I the one who?s supposed to be nervous"
Aside from watching your daughter get on the back of a Harley Road King with a guy named Dallas, there?s little more petrifying to parents than handing over the car keys. Actually, a Harris Poll that Chevy conducted in 2016 revealed that driving unsupervised is parents of teens? greatest worry. It?s a bigger concern than academic performance, drug and alcohol use, or even sex with guys named Dallas. GM has devised a way to relieve some of that anxiety. It?s called Teen Driver, and the system became available on most Chevrolet models for 2017 (it?s still not available on Corvette or Equinox). We are here on this bright winter morning, as mutually freaked-out father and daughter, to check it out.

A sort of go-everywhere monitor for those wet behind the wheel, Teen Driver is a trick bit of software programming that does three things, according to General Motors? Fred Huntzicker: First, it sets boundaries around some of the car?s capabilities, muting, for example, the audio system until both front occupants have clicked th...