From: rertman@ix.netcom.com
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 13:35:34 PST
The renter in CT got that dismissed because car rental companies are not
law enforcement agencies and cannot asses a fine for speeding.
As for the "black box" functions in privately owned new cars, I'm sure
someone will come up with a way to defeat the data acquisition and/or
erase the memory with a button on the dash and the box's memory will
stay blank.
Dick
Glenn Shaw wrote:
>
> Hi Dave
> For several years now unknown to most people the computers in OBDII
> vehicles have been able to act as a "black box" of sorts. No one knew
> about it until some smart lawyers began requesting the info from the
> crash vehicle under discovery. Once people found out about it there was
> a big stink brewing and now the vehicle manufacturers are actually
> telling people about it. Criminal and Civil lawyers will be requesting
> the info as a matter of course now in all major prosecutions. The
> biggest thing is it records the speed leading up until just before air
> bag deployment. You can see where that will have a predictable effect
> in court.
>
> By the way, in regard to the rental vehicle, when you disconnect the
> system or antenna it immediately causes an alert which results in them
> assessing the fine for that too.
>
> MV content: We don't have to worry about it in our M151 :)
>
> Later
> Glenn
> M151
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
> Behalf Of David Cole
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:02 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] NO MV but more on "Big Brother"
>
> I recently bought a new Ford Excursion. It says in the manual that the
> computer tracks time, distance, speed, max speed, etc for some period of
>
> time and it warns that this information could be extracted by law
> enforcement officials if needed. Definite hints of Big Brother.
>
> I wasn't too happy about that warning.
>
> Dave
>
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