GM comes out in support of black box legislation
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag">Safety</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tech/" rel="tag">Technology</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag">GM</a></p><img align="right" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/08/286_control1.jpg" />As of today, when incidents like sudden acceleration happen, it's extremely difficult to diagnose conclusively what the cause was. Without a mechanism to track exactly what the driver did, what the vehicle sensors detected and how the vehicle responded, it usually ends up being a he said/she said situation.<br />
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Thus, in the wake of recent allegations of unintended acceleration in <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota/">Toyota</a> vehicles, a movement has begun to equip all cars with black box data recorders. <br />
Representative Gene Green (D-TX) has already introduced legislation that would mandate the installation of such event data recorders, or black boxes, in all new vehicles.<br />
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<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/gm/">General Motors</a> has now come out publicly in favor of the proposal. GM has been installing event data recorders in its cars since 1995 as part of the air bag system. In accidents where the airbags are triggered, GM can use the data stored in the EDR for diagnostic purposes to improve the function of its safety systems. The recorders save the last few seconds of data before a crash from a number of sensors. GM is not only supporting the installation of these recorders in all vehicles, but also supports making the data accessible so that accident causes can be more accurately determined.<br />
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