Someone I know is taking drivers ed right now and they told me that the teacher said that car manufacturers have been putting black boxes in cars for ~ 10 years to record everything just like they do in airplanes. I really thought this was bs so that's why I'm asking. I know a few of you on here are actual mechanics so is this true? Is it possible they could be hidden somewhere people couldn't easily find them? I think this is the appropriate forum for this since it's a technical question about my car....
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that is bs. What he IS thinking about however is a box that is installed in SOME cars that record speed at moment of impact. They basically only check them in fatal accidents.Noobie my ASS. -
Well this was coming from a person who knew nothing about cars so that could be what he instructor said. I didn't even know they had those though.Comment
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The teacher is probably just trieing to scare everybody. Investigators normally find that stuff out buy looking at tire marks and points of impact/damage.
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Nah, I know the guy personally because I went there too and he doesn't bs on stuff like that so he heard it somewhere...Comment
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That's really ***. Do you have any idea which manufacturers are doing it? Is it something that can be easily removed?Comment
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Its part of the air bag system, Now some just record some things when one goes off. LIke speed, If lights were on, any ecu codes at the time.
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Also, on a front impact which sets the airbag off, i have heard im not 100% positive on this but the spedometer sticks at what you were going pre- impact.. along with the computer that monitors that type of stuff.Comment
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