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The fast and the furious? That’s the situation that comes to mind when your teen driver punches the accelerator on your new sedan … and you get furious.
There’s no way to know if you loan out your car to someone for an afternoon, either — say, to help a friend in a pinch. Maybe few of us are that willing to let someone drive a brand new car, but then again, if you’re the person who buys the car and someone else is the primary driver, it would be nice to set limits.
That’s what makes a new app called Lexus Enform Remote so handy. I tested it recently in a 2017 Lexus RC F, a sports sedan with a 467-horsepower engine that costs $64,165 (base price). It’s a speedy car, but I can imagine someone buying this and letting an alternate driver (say, a spouse or a teen) borrow the ride or even use it on a daily basis.
The app tells you more information that what we’ve seen in other similar apps from Ford and others. You can set a maximum speed (say, 75 MPH) and then get an alert if the car goes over that limit. I can’t say exactly what you would do at that point (my loaner vehicle was only registered for me to be the driver, so I didn’t loan…