Archive for the 'Auto Black Boxes' Category
New rule: Car buyers must be told about ‘black boxes’
Monday, August 21st, 2006As a follow-up to this long ago posting, the National Highway Traffic Safety Asministration has passed a resolution requiring car manufacturers to inform buyers if their cars are equipped with event data recorders (EDRs). Car manufacturers must comply with the new regulation beginning in the 2011 model year; currently, about 64 percent of model year […]
PA Bill Seeks to Inform Drivers of Black Box in Vehicles
Thursday, April 27th, 2006The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story about a new bill in the Pennsylvania legislature (Senate Bill 1050) that would require car dealers to tell buyers about the existence of automible black boxes and give the car owner greater control over release of the data on the recorder in case of an accident:
It has two main […]
Driving Big Brother
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005Wired News reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to release new rules for controversial car black boxes this summer:
Contrary to expectations, the rules don’t require automakers to install the boxes in every car, but they do require the boxes to record a minimum of 29 pieces of data, more than most black […]
Black Boxes Capture Car-crash Data, Controversy
Monday, May 16th, 2005Warren Webb at EDN.com has posted a nice summary article on the vehicle black box controversy, “Black Boxes Capture Car-crash Data, Controversy”:
With little fanfare or customer notification, some automobile manufacturers have for years been recording your driving habits. Initially for optimizing subsystem performance, event-data recorders have now evolved into devices that can store multiple data […]
Black box data ownership in North Dakota
Thursday, April 14th, 2005One of the concerns regarding new information technologies used in cars is the ownership of the data. This is a particular concern in the case of black boxes, systems that record pre-accident vehicle data, mostly for the benefit of insurance companies. It is good to hear, then, that North Dakota has become the first state […]
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