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Obama administration proposes making ‘black boxes’ mandatory in new cars
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Department of Transportation is considering requiring automobiles to be equipped with the accident recorders that are used on airplanes.
The "event data recorders," or black boxes, as they are most often called, are used by investigators to determine the circumstances that led to crashes, even when vehicles are destroyed before they are recovered.
The DOT proposal calls for black boxes to be installed in all cars that are manufactured after Sept. 1, 2014. The department said the cost of carrying out the requirement would be about $20 per car.
"We believe that the costs of installing EDRs are minimal because the devices involve the capture into memory of data that are already being processed by the vehicle, and not the much higher costs of providing sensors to obtain much of that data in the first place," the agency said. |
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