Did You Know Your Car Is Recording You?

Did You Know Your Car Is Recording You?

For well over a decade, essentially every new car has been equipped with an event data recorder similar to an airplane's flight recorder, or "black box."

Normally part of the system that knows when to deploy the airbags, the event data recorder continuously tracks a multitude of facts, such as the vehicle's acceleration rate, speed, various engine functions, seat belt use and more. Such systems are not connected to the GPS and so do not know where the vehicle is located. Furthermore, the data are continuously overwritten, so just the few last seconds of data before an accident may be available. The idea is to give accident investigators a big boost in understanding why a vehicle crashed.


More involved are optional concierge services such as General Motors' OnStar and Ford's Sync. These powerful data links do have GPS and do know where the vehicle is, and they accumulate a huge amount of speed, acceleration and engineering data. So far these systems do not communicate with anyone outside the car unless you ask them to — by pushing the OnStar buttons, for example. But when you do, all sorts of remote control is possible, from unlocking doors and reducing engine power to shutting the car off, as well as tracking the vehicle's position in real time.


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