[IP] more on American cars have a standardized data port connector under the dash
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From: Rusty Hodge <rusty@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 11, 2004 4:14:43 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] American cars have a standardized data port connector
under the dash
Here's some more background and facts on the "standardized data port":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/
03/financial1841EDT0330.DTL
Safety officials recommend requiring `black boxes' for passenger
vehicles
``"We believe very strongly that vehicles should have a black box,"
NTSB chairman Ellen Engleman Conners said``
Black Boxes won't make cars safer. They'll just make investigations
easier. And your insurance company will love them!
Cars that have them:
http://vetronix.com/diagnostics/cdr/vehicle_list.html
``The NTSB recommended black boxes two months after the top federal
auto safety agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
said it saw no need to require them because automakers are adding them
voluntarily to more models.``
The recorder, a four-inch square metal box
http://www.harristechnical.com/cdr.htm , is currently installed in most
recent GM vehicles and select 2000 and later Ford vehicles. You can get
a automobile black box reader
http://www.collisionrecon.com/services/crash-data-retrieval.html which
gives you such information as ``vehicle speed, brake switch status,
percent throttle, and engine speed for 5 seconds prior to impact, as
well as the post-impact delta-V or change in speed. The driver's
seatbelt circuit status, airbag warning lamp status, ignition cycles at
deployment and since the accident, and some other data may also be
recorded, again depending on the SDM used in each particular vehicle.``
From the SFGate.com article: ``The highway safety agency says between
65 percent and 90 percent of 2004 vehicles have some sort of recording
ability. About 15 percent of vehicles have data recorders.``
(as seen on my blog at
http://withoutpermission.com/archives/000308.html )
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