Who Needs Privacy? NHTSA To Mandate Black Boxes To Monitor YOUR Driving Activities

Someday your car will give you recommendations on where to eat, suggest more efficient routes between home and work, and even monitor your health. But for now it’s just keeping tabs on your driving habits, recording your behavior in case it needs to be reconstructed after an accident.

Federal officials are poised to announce next month that all cars must contain a black box, similar to that installed on airplanes, to give authorities a glimpse of your activities in the event of a car wreck. The devices could help pin down what happened in the moments before a crash, helping authorities determine who is at fault for what, and eliminating uncertainty from human witnesses.



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LexSucks - 5/24/2011 11:33:45 AM

+3 Boost

"Federal officials are poised to announce next month that all cars must contain a black box, similar to that installed on airplanes, to give authorities a glimpse of your activities in the event of a car wreck."

- In the event of a car wreck? Why don't they tell us the other reasons?

Joe_Limon - 5/24/2011 12:09:10 PM

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What cars don't already have this? Onboard computers are already being used in accident reconstruction to see what speeds people were going and if when/if they hit their brakes.

Spectator - 5/24/2011 1:10:06 PM

+4 Boost

Correct. Most cars do have this. This is nothing new. You can pull most of this data from you OBD II.

Agent009 - 5/24/2011 2:43:40 PM

+2 Boost

I feel you are on the right track here. At first it will be innocent, but start teaming it up with other data sources and you see the whole picture. Big brother won't just know what happened but what you were doing at that time. No need to determine what happened, they will just judge and sentence you.

knowitall1985 - 5/25/2011 3:07:28 PM

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I'll blow it up with my driving...LOL

holmstar - 5/25/2011 4:52:01 PM

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As long as it is necessary to physically connect to it to download the data, I don't really have a problem with it. As someone else said, most automotive computers already do this to some extant.

Now, if the "black box" had the capability to send data wirelessly, that would be a problem.