| 06acuraMDX |
We have a 2006 MDX and I wanted to know if the computer logged top speed? If it does how do I view it?
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| shootist |
It probably does, and you probably can't view it. It's stored in a format that can't be read by users yet. The black box also records the last five or ten seconds before airbag deployment. This will be accessed more frequently by attorneys and insurers in the near future.
You own the data in the black box, unless your car or the black box is declared a total and replaced by the insurer. Once that happens, the insurer has salvage rights to all the parts. However, the data is not protected from discovery by opposing counsel even while you own it. |
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| RN7676 |
From: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
http://www.iihs.org/sr/pdfs/sr4108.pdf - Starts on page 3 of this file.
What’s an EDR? Popularly called a “black box,” an event data recorder (EDR) collects certain information from a vehicle immediately before and during a crash or near crash.
New federal rules, effective for 2011 passenger vehicle models, are expected to broaden EDR usefulness by standardizing the data that are collected. But the rules fall short of requiring EDRs.
ARE EDRs REQUIRED?
No, passenger vehicles don’t have to have them, but many automakers are equipping their vehicles voluntarily. The EDRs shown here are from Ford and
General Motors vehicles, all of which have the devices. So do Isuzus, Mazdas, Mitsubishis, Subarus, and Suzukis. EDRs aren’t in vehicles from BMW, Daewoo, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, or Volkswagen. |
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| jhue |
| OP probably wants to know if his parents will find out how fast he's been driving their MDX when they loan it to their teenager. |
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| shootist |
quote:
Originally posted by RN7676
From: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
http://www.iihs.org/sr/pdfs/sr4108.pdf - Starts on page 3 of this file.
What’s an EDR? Popularly called a “black box,” an event data recorder (EDR) collects certain information from a vehicle immediately before and during a crash or near crash.
New federal rules, effective for 2011 passenger vehicle models, are expected to broaden EDR usefulness by standardizing the data that are collected. But the rules fall short of requiring EDRs.
ARE EDRs REQUIRED?
No, passenger vehicles don’t have to have them, but many automakers are equipping their vehicles voluntarily. The EDRs shown here are from Ford and
General Motors vehicles, all of which have the devices. So do Isuzus, Mazdas, Mitsubishis, Subarus, and Suzukis. EDRs aren’t in vehicles from BMW, Daewoo, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, or Volkswagen.
The IIHS article is a bit behind the times. Several of hte vehicles they say don't have EDR's do indeed have them. As a matter of fact, most vehicles now have them to help manufacturers defend aibag product liability litigation.
Ford and GM use a common CDR (Crash data reader) to download the EDR. I beleive it's from Bosch. The other car manufacturers have proprietary downloaders.
It is just now becoming a bigger issue for fleet risk managers and insurers. A driver that says "I applied the brakes, and they didn't work" can easily be proven correct or incorrect by the EDR. |
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