New Black Box Requirements May Add $3,500 In Manufacturing Costs Per Car

All thanks to Toyota's crap that killed people.

vladyxa/Badge whore Im sure you are one person under two names on this site..... When was the last time a company or companies had a sales freeze on 8 different vehicles at one time? Get your head out of your ssa and stop followiing Toyota so blindly. Im just sure 90 people only driving Toyota'sand no other makes just decided to kill themselves on purpose.

why so expensive? A $3500 computer is way overkill, even a $500 computer with an expensive $3000 case is overkill.

vladyxa- The article mentions the devices could triple to $5000. Do the math and you find reversely and they currently cost about $1500 to $1600. Multiply that by 3 and you get around $5000 or a $3500 increase in cost. I hope that explains it.

I do agree with you that if everyone was logging more relevant data then this would not be necessary. The inadequacies in the Toyota data logging brought this to light but I bet it could have been the same for most any brand.

vladyxa - Pretty much all cars have some sort of data logging, however they all log only certain data (no standards).

Therefore in a case where you are trying to link like incidents with parameter such as velocity, throttle position, brake application etc. it all depends on the automaker if you can get that data. the feds basically want to be able and reconstruct some incidents with standardized data, very similar to a flight box recorder in aircraft.

The article indicated that the automakers estimate black boxes would triple in price to around the $5K range. That means the data loggers now have to be in the $1500 to $1700 range for the math to work.