Saw a clip on network news the other night re: a guy who was convicted and sentenced for 30 yrs in the deaths of 2 people he killed while driving 100+ mph in a white camaro. He was convicted based on black box data that records speed, brakes, gas, etc 5 seconds prior to a crash.
The piece mentioned some cars have it already, w/ most people unaware of their existence. Thoughts:
- If you were involved in a serious accident not your fault, would you want the other car to have a black box?
- If the S has / or will get one, would you remove it, legal or not (states are passing laws re: their use)?
- Does the potential good (info on accident only - subject to abuse?) out weigh privacy issues?
- Who decides?

 

The S2000 ECU does not record anything other than trouble codes and peak RPM hit.

The scariest "black box" car I have heard about is the US Lotus Elise. That car's ECU records some very freightening stats...

Andrew

 

The Elise ECU records a lot, but a lot of European ECU (Porsche, MB..) record plenty of stuff too...

I think the s2k ECU is pretty standard... barely any recording or anything...

 

If those 2 people who were killed were your wife and child....what are your thoughts on black boxes then?

 

depends if the wife was driving recklessly or not.

 

well, put it in the context of the camaro guy, who ran two people down, and would have got off had it not been for the black box