After a car crash, drivers often depend on police reports and witness accounts to figure out what happened. But modern cars have a more reliable source: the Event Data Recorder (EDR), also known as a ...

A car’s event data recorder gathers and stores crucial driving data and incident information before, during, and after a triggering event like an accident occurs with your vehicle. Some cars have had ...

If your car is equipped with airbags, it will almost certainly have an Event Data Recorder (EDR), the “little black box.” The airbag system controller called an air-bag control module (ACM) or ...

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The modern vehicle is a marvel of technology, and among its many features is the often-overlooked black box, or Event Data Recorder (EDR). As these devices become increasingly sophisticated, ...

Farmington police used "black box" data to determine the driver responsible for a triple-fatality car crash in April was traveling in excess of 100 mph on a city street. Black boxes, or event data ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Niagara Falls Police Department is now the lead agency investigating the deadly crash at the Rainbow Bridge on Wednesday morning. NFPD Chief John Faso says that the ...

Planes have them. Trains have them. Some trucks do, too. And you may be driving around with one somewhere in your car and not know it. A rule the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...

Every time there’s a plane crash or other aviation safety incident, we often hear talk of the famous “black box”. Of course, anyone these days will tell you that they’re not black, but orange, for ...