Another reason to drive an older car.
Posted on 08/12/2013 6:34:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Video at source.
A proposed federal rule that would require black boxes or event data recorders (EDRs) in every U.S. automobile may mean “Big Brother” could be in your passenger seat for every drive.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule requires all light passenger vehicles be equipped with an EDR by Sep.1, 2014. Ninety-six percent of new cars already have them - measuring such inputs as speed, lateral acceleration, pedal effort, seat belt use, wheel spin, steering wheel turn and direction.
Black box data retrieved from U.S. car accidents in a single day would provide more information than a year's worth of crash testing, says Tom Kowalick, who heads the design team that is standardizing the devices for automakers worldwide.
But he also said he fears that for all their potential good, the EDRs present a massive privacy dilemma, and an opportunity for fraudsters.
"They can take that odometer and roll that odometer back to zero,” he said. “They can change the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), which is in the computer. And once they do that, then it's okay for them to very simply steal the motor vehicle and move it away."
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Yeah... No.
/johnny
That’s a sweet ride.
Take your surveillance and check yourselves for polyps, Fedguys.
/johnny
More and more I want to go back to an old air-cooled Corvair from the 1960s like my parents had.
Is there a law against taking them out of the vehicle?
Take your surveillance and check yourselves for polyps, Fedguys.
ROFLMAO!!! You get the prize!
Some day, gov’t will pull you over and write speeding tickets of your black box.
That’s why the wife just bought a 2013 model....
Imagine the value of pre-2014 used cars for the next 10 years!
Another reason to drive an older car.
Most likely a computer interlock to everything else in the car....plus voiding the warranty and likely your insurance.
My Dad had a 76? 280Z and loved it, it was great on the open road.
If this should pass I’d bet it’ll be illegal to remove them.
Having a data logging module storing the data as it flows around is not big deal technologically.
Welcome to the no privacy future.
No...
Auto-download.
You’ll just get an itemized list of tickets at the end of each month.....
...unless they auto-deduct them from your checking account.
NOW do you understand what “Tea Party” means?
Auto black boxes, a greedy plaintiff trial lawyers dream for doubling his take home income. Seize on one or two lines of data to blame the accident on the other driver, not his client’s drunk/ cell phone texting, across the white line driving at the moment of the crash.
Some day, gov’t will pull you over and write speeding tickets of your black box.
The Gubmint will simply deduct the fee from your bank account.
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