“However, they can’t mandate that we not remove them.”
I will bet you the price of the car that the vehicle is disabled and won’t start if the black box is tampered with or removed. Sort of like the anti-lock brakes that when broken or unplugged, disable the vehicle from running at all.
Then, don’t buy em. Go used or foreign and get them shipped here. Screw the feds.
And in other news, the price of older used vehicles unexpectedly rises!
I think some nerd hero will quickly step forth to offer a solution to that problem with a hardware based “black box emulator.”
So in response they’ll make it a felony to tamper with your vehicle’s computer.
“I will bet you the price of the car that the vehicle is disabled and won’t start if the black box is tampered with or removed. Sort of like the anti-lock brakes that when broken or unplugged, disable the vehicle from running at all.”
I am a third year law student that just did my rigorous writing course on this very topic. (4th Amendment lesser expectation of privacy in a vehicle and the impact of mandated EDR’s. The paper must be of publishable quality) If the EDR is disabled, all safety devices in the vehicle are disabled which includes the braking system.
If you are disturbed by the concept of a black box in your car, brace yourself for the second generation “mac box” that audio and video records everything inside the vehicle’s cab. My law professor was a District Judge. She was horrified at what my research turned up.
Well, the anti-lock system in my car went out of commission (gave up the ghost) and that was at least six years ago and the car keeps right on chugging along.