Data Recorder mandated by US Gov. by Sept. 1, 2014

[Nitephyre]

FedEx?

Hmm, I thought this was all possible since ODB ports appeared. Certainly ripe for abuse though. Cue normal people trying to remove it like truckies & bussies did in the 90s.

[Mini]

An event recorder was the subject of a court case not so long ago in Sydney. The police wanted the information out of it after a pedestrian fatality at Kogarah where a car mounted a footpath and hit a mum and her baby. The driver was young (learner maybe?) and her parents went to court trying to prevent the data being used. I don't know the outcome but it was the first one I had heard of and the media thought it was unusual enough at the time to write about it.

[Eurorogerrevolution]

Or worse yet , cars driving themselves !

http://www.wimp.com/carparking/

[fury]

And so it begins...

http://brisbanetimes.drive.com.au/mo...223-2ey41.html

[ls400x]

Ha, I drive a mechanically injected diesel, try and get data out of that fuckers

[trent from punchy]

Carbies ftw.

[Covert]

And so it begins...

http://brisbanetimes.drive.com.au/mo...223-2ey41.html

It's been in use for quite some time. The most high profile use of ECU data was from this incident in 2004 involving a Peugeot 206.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...236005923.html

The owner of the Peugeot tried to prevent the use of the ECU data being used against them. It was found that at the time of the crash, the car was 40km/h above the speed limit.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/si.../2006/685.html

[Morgs]

I was unaware of this technology already being used .... :fgay:

[buzz]

Toyota seem to claim stuff isn't being recorded, but somehow if there is a 'non trivial' event they can magically make the last 30 seconds worth of logged data appear, but perhaps I am just splitting hairs.

I like how the data seems only geared towards ratting on you in the case of an accident but you can't access it to prove you were not speeding, doing burnouts, etc.

[Cantilever Bridge]

do you blame them though? stupid cunts claim the cars accelerate on their own

[Streety]

I have seen a few cars put out results of exact times air bags deploy, not to sure about the other stuff but it has stopped a few people conning new airbags out of a small accident claim as the were already faulty before. This will save honest people premiums

[Imposter Forg]

meh, these days with phones and CCTV and shit you're still being recorded even if you're driving 1930 rolls royce buick.

[perthdrivers.txt]

As long as the owner/driver of the vehicle is given access to the black box information at the same time as Police I don't have a major problem with this really. It's when it's taken away by police at the scene of an accident and used against you without your knowledge/consent that stinks.

[Imposter Forg]

anyway some nerd will invent a box you put before the ECU that only records fine and dandy sunday driver stats anyway if its gets too extreme and a market opens up for it

[TurbostyleR]

If this was the case I would wire up a relay to the ECU and if I did happen to do something silly just flick a switch over and fry the NVRAM chips and good bye log history along with ecu. Only handy in a write off situation I guess.

I'm not a fan of this technology at all. It will never be used to prove my innocence, it will only be used to prove guilt.