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August 24, 2012
Q. You know about the “black box,” or flight data recorder, on airplanes, for reconstructing details of accidents. But what about the black box in your car?
A. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 85 percnet of new vehicles are equipped with an event data recorder (EDR), says Willie D. Jones in IEEE Spectrum magazine. This nondescript box, about the size of a deck of cards, can provide a rich record for police, courts, insurance on how fast you were driving, when you hit the brakes, and whether you were wearing a seat belt.
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