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Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns
hessian writes "In the next few days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to propose long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as 'black boxes' — in all new cars and light trucks. But the agency is behind the curve. Automakers have been quietly tucking the devices, which automatically record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop, into most new cars for years. Data collected by the recorders is increasingly showing up in lawsuits, criminal cases and high-profile accidents. Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray initially said that he wasn't speeding and that he was wearing his seat belt when he crashed a government-owned car last year. But the Ford Crown Victoria's data recorder told a different story: It showed the car was traveling more than 100 mph and Murray wasn't belted in."
Last time I checked it wasn't slashdot.us either
Did you bother to read the Slashdot FAQ? Slashdot absolutely is a US-centric site. It calls itself a US-centric site. It is hosted in the USA. It is owned by a US company.
I swear, complete and total ignorance about a subject AND being too fucking lazy to spend a whole 30 seconds looking it up never seems to stop anybody from opening their fucking mouths. No, your ignorance is not as good as my informed opinion. Too bad if you somehow think that's inappropriate or out of order, its the only way it should be.
What's up with the US people being so self-centric? Other people in the world have no problem connecting with each other and disgussing with them like proper adult beings. Yet somehow US people have huge problem with this? We are used to dealing with foreign people. We can deal with foreign people. Why cannot US people?