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Auto Manufacturers Increasingly Installing Event Recorders in Automobiles.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003
By Peter Pochna, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 20--Under the cover of early-morning twilight, two cars collided in Hackensack. Both vehicles were mauled. One driver nearly died.
Three months later, each motorist is blaming the other. The insurance companies are haggling, and lawsuits are pending.
Yet the answer to what really happened that morning could be held inside a tiny silver box.
The steel-encased device, called an event data recorder, is similar to an airplane's "black box." About the size of a paperback novel, it stores information such as a vehicle's speed before a collision, whether brakes were applied, and whether the seat belt was buckled.
Although most drivers...
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