Is it true that cars have black boxes now?

[GT Fanatic]

Like the black box in airplanes, that records everything prior to the accident. Someone told me they exist in cars now.

[Country cracker]

LoL

[abecx]

Welcome to 1986

[Plague]

I can't say for any other brand but GMs do. It's called an airbag module. Once any of the airbags go off in the vehicle it logs 10 seconds of data, 8 seconds prior to the airbag deployment and 2 seconds after. All sorts of data, like speed, brake pressure, engine rpm, ect.

If GM does this I would imagine the other major auto makers would have a very similar device.


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[ktm300hater]

I can't say for any other brand but GMs do. It's called an airbag module. Once any of the airbags go off in the vehicle it logs 10 seconds of data, 8 seconds prior to the airbag deployment and 2 seconds after. All sorts of data, like speed, brake pressure, engine rpm, ect.

If GM does this I would imagine the other major auto makers would have a very similar device.


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How the hell would it record data prior to the bag deploying, if it takes the bag deploying to start the recording......

[SS Junk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_data_recorder

[Lason]

How the hell would it record data prior to the bag deploying, if it takes the bag deploying to start the recording......

lol, are you serious?

It is constantly recording and overwriting data as it needs room.

[Craizie]

lol, are you serious?

It is constantly recording and overwriting data as it needs room.

Unpossible!

[line-em-up]

How the hell would it record data prior to the bag deploying, if it takes the bag deploying to start the recording......

How does TIVO work?

[0393gt]

Fuck tivo and cable cards. Wish we never agreed to service them shits.

[LANTIRN]

This isn't exactly new technology; it has been in use almost as long as I have been alive. I would he much more concerned about the nsa tapping my cell, or the tsa molesting children.

[2011GT]

How the hell would it record data prior to the bag deploying, if it takes the bag deploying to start the recording......

How does a positraction rearend work? Nobody knows, it just does.

[big_tiger]

Everyone is required to release the data they have accumulated to the NHTSA, but I haven't heard of anything past event recording.

[MattB]

As far as I know, only African American women have black boxes.