IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard

An anonymous submitter writes: "According to EE Times, the IEEE is working to develop an automotive black-box standard similar to what airplanes have. Forget Acme Rent-A-Car in Connecticut - get ready to have your insurance company jack your rates for going over 65mph."

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Easy solution

[Merovign]

Buy car. Buy Taser. Unplug unit. Apply 120,000 volts. Plug unit back in. Drive in privacy. (Ignore warning light optional.)

Of course, if you hack it, even better.

Personally, I'll stick to upgraded older cars. I prefer 5-points to airbags anyway.

This has been done before

[jrp2]

This was done secretly a while back by the NTSB. While studying the data they noticed something intersting. In almost all states an average of 86.7% of the driver's last words before an accident were "OH SHIT". The only exception was Tennessee where in 63.2% of the accidents the last words were "Hey Bubba, watch this" ;)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Worried about being fined for speeding?

[Decimal]

Hey, I've found a neat way to avoid getting speeding tickets. Here's how it works. It turns out that on almost any public road there will occassionally be little white signs on the side that have a number on them. There's also this little indicator behind the steering wheel that has its own number that goes up or down depending on how hard you push the gas pedal.

Now here's the trick: If you make sure the number on this "speedometer" doesn't exceed the numbers on these "speed limit" signs, you can cruise right on past the cops and they don't even seem to notice you! Just leave a few minutes earlier and you can get to where you're going on time without anybody stopping you to harass you about your velocity. Works like a charm!

Psst, don't tell too many people. The cops might start to catch on that we've found a way to avoid them. Heh, those suckers.

/attempt at humor>

Re:I think this is a great idea.

[Decimal]

Well, according to your black box, your lights were on, and you had come to a complete stop.

...horizontally across the freeway. Who's fault? :)

Beetles for Everyone!

[ackthpt]

Yep, that's what it'll be. Everyone will run screaming to get old used cars, the aftermarket for modding these things into everything will flourish.

Blackboxes, maybe even with 802.11 so the CHP can spy on you (drives fast, changes lanes frequently, tailgates, yeah... better send them a recruitment letter), beyone the obvious invasion of privacy argument (He's parked in front of your house again, sarge, shows up two minutes after you leave for work everyday...) there's certainly going to be a firestorm of protest at jacking up the cost of cars. We'll spend insane amounts of money once we got them, but don't even think about charging $200 more on the sticker price...