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Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail
myzor writes "This article from the Montreal Gazette reports that a driver got 18 months in jail for speeding that killed a man, after the black box in his car revealed he was going 157 km/h (98 mph) in a 50 km/h zone in downtown Montreal. The recording device, which stores data on how a car is driven in the last five seconds before a collision, showed that four seconds before impact, the driver had the gas pedal to the floor and didn't brake before impact." Reader ergo98 writes "Setting a precedent for the Canadian legal system, a Quebec man was convicted based upon the incriminating evidence found in his own car's black box." The Star also has another article looking at the issues surrounding the data recorder.
BTW.. it's montreal.. you'd understand if you drove there.. they're all nuckin futs
I know, they drive like that here in Florida when they come to visit from Montreal, G-D damm Canadian snowbirds!
What DO YOU have so special as to be able to break the law and endanger other people???
The rather large jump-to-conclusion your making here is that violating the law necessarily endangers other people every single time. It does not.
People's desire to believe they are right is much stronger than their desire to be right.
Its in Canada - they don't have the US Constitution. Canadians do not have rights.
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