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'Black Box' Readings Help Convict Montreal Driver
the man writes "From CBC News, Here's one that is going to get a lot of attention in the coming years. Quebec police won a dangerous-driving conviction Friday using evidence from the 'black box' in the car, a first in the province. Turns out that not many people know of these things. Time to start working on the mod for my Toyota."
Oh, come on!
"If I don't carry an illegal gun, then I'm a HAZARD because I can't respond to the other people who break the law by carrying a gun and who might pull one on me or my friends".
Breaking the law just because everybody else is doing it is just a recipe for disaster.
The owls are not what they seem
When you drive your car on a public road your actions are public, not private. The police, courts, and public have every right to see the contents of your black box when driving on a public road.
And if GM has built the black box to give false readings to protect itself from liability when the brakes mysteriously fail that make it looks as if the driver is as fault, what do you do then? Are these boxes built by the government and up to codified government standards? Do car companies have a long and unsmudged history of absolute truth and honesty in thier endeavors? Do they have a history of immediately taking fully responsibility for thier design flaws and never attempting to hide or cover them up?