NHTSA To Mandate Vehicle Data Recording Boxes With Marginal Consumer Protection Provisions

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to finalize a long-awaited proposal to make event data recorders standard on all new vehicles.

In a notice posted Thursday, the White House Office of Management Budget said it has completed a review of the proposal to make so-called vehicle "black boxes" mandatory in all cars and trucks, clearing the way for NHTSA to publish its final regulation.

Nearly all vehicles currently have the devices.

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Agent009 - 12/6/2012 3:27:47 PM

+1 Boost

They do it in other countries.

Agent009 - 12/6/2012 3:27:26 PM

+3 Boost

Basically the data is yours unless:

You lease the vehicle (you aren't the owner)
If you crash. Then both insurance and police can get the data if they want it.
If anyone else wants it, just need to get a judge to order it.
If there is some emergency the police can get the data legally.

So:
Insurance can deny a claim based on interpretation of data
Police can tell were you have been and if laws were broken pretty much at will.
Possibly divorce lawyers can get the data to determine if you cheated.

Yep sounds like a good plan to me.

vdiv - 12/7/2012 11:17:35 AM

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Bastids!

The data ain't yours since you are given absolutely no access nor rights to it. The precedent is set, the recorders can capture over and above what is required.

Next, a Verizon FiOS DVR that watches you procreate on the couch of your own living room.