Posted
10/03/2005 05:19:00 PM
by Douglas
Your car IS spying on
you.Meanwhile, automakers quietly have started adding what amount to black boxes to their automobiles--sort of cheap, simplified versions of the black boxes found in commercial airliners.
But the public doesn't know about those black boxes, and I haven't noticed anything about them in the owner's manual.
In the last few seconds of an automobile's operation before a crash, they record data such as speed, direction and whether there was braking.
It's a lawyer's dream. After an accident, one side or the other would be interested in the data, which could be invaluable at a trial.
This one's going to get interesting. I can't imagine the recording device in a car being used to testify against its driver in court, but stranger things have happened.
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